By Rev. Jamie Lynn Haskins I’m Christian. I’m clergy. I’m pro-choice. There are people who would tell you these three statements are contradictory, that you can’t be both Christian and support a woman’s right to choose, that religious leaders cannot stand with...
Nearly 20 percent of high school students seriously considered attempting suicide last year. Almost 10 percent acted on those thoughts and attempted suicide. These statistics, reported in April by the Center for Disease Control, became part of the life experience of Rev. Dr....
Everybody—everybody—needs to know God loves them, as they were created, no exceptions. Tragic can’t begin to describe the tremendous discrimination and hatred shown toward the LGBTQ+ community by people who honestly believe Jesus taught his followers to behave in such...
Becoming a parent can be anybody’s most important life-changing event, and that change brings pressure (both external and self-imposed) to get it right — worse, to get it perfect — on the first try. The very first words of Dear...
In the past few days, a scammer masquerading as Chalice Press (how most people know us) or the Christian Board of Publication (our corporate name) sent fake invoices to people with no previous connection to our company. Obviously that didn’t...
Take a moment to look at the faces in the montage at the top of this blog page. Isn’t that reason enough to publish a book sharing these children’s expressions of wonder and amazement at God’s world? They’re adorable, right?...
We’ve all experienced that allure of something forbidden; after all, temptation is the subject of the first human story in the Bible. “Here’s something cool. Don’t touch it,” God tells Eve and Adam. A lot of good that did. As...
In the fall of 2020, several months into a pandemic none of us could see coming, Chalice Press was graced with a proposal called “Trauma Transformed.” The author, Jennifer Ohman-Rodriguez, shared a heartbreaking, mesmerizing story of the sudden death of...
A few weeks ago I saw the cover of an upcoming book by Kayleigh McEnany, the former White House press secretary, called For Such a Time as This. Her book supposedly tells the story of her faith journey during her...
