Quotidian Grace

Today's newspaper carried a front page story about the new pipe organ that has just been finished and installed at the Co-Cathedral of ...

So you read or heard the news about the recent Pew Forum's report about the sad state of the average church-goer's religious knowle...

Pastor Randy Lubbers, First Presbyterian Church of Crystal Lake, Illinois, published this insightful essay on his blog ( Still Up In The Air...

Dear Cool Front, Welcome back! Take off your hat and sit a spell. Here, I'll move those magazines.  Can I get you anything? Coffee? Te...

 The RevGals Friday Five is all about singing in worship--one of my favorite things! 1) Do you like to sing/listen to others sing? In w...

Today's review is a 3-for-one. I just finished reading the last book in Stieg Larrson's Millenium Trilogy (T he Girl with the Dragon...

How many church meetings is too many church meetings? Three in a 24 hour period? Six within four days? Presbyterians are famous for their me...

Every fall the thoughts of Presbyterian church leadership turns to the annual stewardship campaign. In this month's Best of the Blogs co...

Well, shut my mouth if Jan over at the RevGals didn't post a Friday Five meme all about Baby Showers since she is hosting one for her da...

The results are in and QG didn't win the award for Best Spiritual, Inspirational or Religious Book Blog in the Book Blogger Appreciation...

Now I don't remember why I downloaded The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet to my Kindle. I wasn't familiar with the author, David ...

For those of you who haven't had time to listen to the full podcast conversation between me and vice moderator Rev. Landon Whitsitt--and...

Now that Portia has gone public with the news, I'm thrilled to report that we are expecting our first grandchild --due the first week i...

Earlier this week I caught the same upper respiratory "crud" that El Jefe developed shortly after we returned from our trip. Clear...

A few weeks ago I wrote a post called "Sola Kerfuffle" in response to remarks by Rev. Landon Whitsitt, the newly-elected Vice Mode...

Tropical Storm Gaston is fixin' to strike a glancing blow on the Houston area later today and we're already seeing rain. I'm tha...

This is the admonition that was posted outside the church of St. Mark's (all the churches in Croatia seemed to be named for St. Mark, re...

An ongoing problem in the Presbyterian church (and other mainline churches) is that it is difficult to find younger members who are willing ...

Woo-Hoo! I got word this morning that Quotidian Grace has been nominated for Best Spiritual, Inspirational or Religious Book Blog in the Boo...

Here's one of my favorite pictures from our vacation. We took a cruise along the Dalmatian Coast (the Adriatic Sea just east of Italy in...