Scott’s Column: How Are You Developing Your Leadership Skills? by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Jan 22, 2025 | NewsHow are you developing your leadership skills for our current times? That was one of the key questions of this year's Conversations gathering of United Church of Christ...
Scott’s Column: A Cold Night in Zurich by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Jan 8, 2025 | NewsA cold night in Zurich. As historian William Estep describes it, "the chill of the winter wind [was] blowing off the lake" as a dozen men "slowly trudged through the...
Scott’s Column: Two Titans by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Dec 30, 2024 | NewsLast week two titans of the liberal Mainline Protestant churches died--theologian John Cobb and hymn lyricist Ruth Duck. About a dozen of Ruth Duck's hymns appear in...
Scott’s Column: Dark Years? by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Dec 3, 2024 | Events, NewsIn the late nineties, American philosopher Richard Rorty predicted that in 2016 America would elect a strongman and enter into thirty dark years, but come out the other...
Scott’s Column: Wicked by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Nov 25, 2024 | NewsThis last weekend was Wicked. I'm only playing with the slang use of the word from my youth. I really mean the opening of the new film version of the popular Broadway...
Scott’s Column: More on Awe by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Nov 18, 2024 | NewsOften I get asked after a sermon, "What's that book you mentioned?" For our autumn series on Awe, the main text I've used is Dacher Keltner's Awe: A New Science of...
Scott’s Column: A Pastoral Word for Young LGBTQ+ People After the Election by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Nov 12, 2024 | NewsFor young people, particularly young LGBTQ+ people. I know that the election results have left you confused, sad, afraid, heartbroken, and angry. These are proper...
Scott’s Column: Gustavo Gutierrez by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Oct 28, 2024 | NewsEarlier this year, Jurgen Moltmann died. He was the great living theologian, at least the greatest Protestant theologian in the post-Second-World-War-Era. And then...
