Sexuality, talent, financial success, humor, faith, generosity, beauty, fun, music, family, food, health, investment, kindness, fashion, dignity, respect, justice, and glamor, as Dolly Parton saw them, were all gifts of God to celebrate, as long as they were used for good.

It might be that the age of toys and church is over, but God is not done with us yet. I have Jessie, Woody, and Buzz to thank for that lesson. 

Each week in The Christian Citizen, we publish a Religion News Roundup with summaries of religion news stories and links for those who want to read more.

We must seek after God’s spirit, time and time again. We must drink from Jesus’ well, the well of eternal life.

Only when Odysseus begins to bear the moral weight of his victory in Troy does he start to make sense of his inner turmoil.