Rev. Ethan Brown, Pastor and Minister of Care & Discipleship

It was sometime in 1980 that CBS anchor Dan Rather interviewed Mother Teresa. By this point in her life, Mother Teresa had already spent three decades living in and serving the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta, India. Certainly she had some spiritual insight to share and while there are many aspects of that interview that are worth considering, perhaps the most famous is what Mother Teresa said about prayer. When Dan Rather asked her, “When you pray, what do you say to God?”...

I had jury duty this week. It was my first time ever getting the call to serve, and mostly, it was disappointing. I was hoping for a short two day trial so I could get the full experience. Instead I spent 1-2 hours every morning sitting in a large room with people I didn’t know until we were dismissed. While I did get some nice reading done, I could imagine better uses of my time. Finally, on Wednesday, after we were given notice of our last dismissal, we were told that the judge wanted to...

Do you want to be in the room where it happened? Aaron Burr certainly did—or so the song goes. How could he not have wanted to attend dinner that night in 1790 between Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton at 57 Maiden Lane New York, New York? Somehow, over the course(s) of the evening, our country's capital shifted down to the Potomac and the federal banking system got its start. Burr, for all his connections and charm, was out in the cold while big things were happening....