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By Christine Sine
I am currently in Australia visiting my family.
I love coming at this time of year — not only because it gives me a break from Seattle’s cold, rainy autumn, but also because November usually sits just before the Christmas rush.
By Laurie Nichols
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him.” – Romans 15:13
Many think of joy as an elated state. A dictionary definition tells us that joy is “a feeling of great pleasure and happiness.” In the Bible, however, we find something a little bit different—something that looks a bit more like a peaceful, vibrant, and contented cheerfulness instead of a dance party.
By Nigel Paul
As Christmas approaches, we remember how Christ moved in among us. John 1:14a says, “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us” (NKJV). Or as the Message paraphrase puts it, “The Word became flesh and blood and moved into the neighborhood.”
By Kristyn Komarnicki
I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. – John 13:34
By Sarah String
“No one has ever become poor by giving.” – Anne Frank
The holidays are here again, and many of us are tired already. Have you ever been tired of searching for the perfect gifts?
By Alejandra Ortiz
For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations.
By Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon
One of my favorite holiday memories as a little girl involves driving through local neighborhoods at night, looking at Christmas lights, and belting out carols with my Dad—mostly off-key!
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.
To celebrate the October 2021 release of her new book—Heavy Burdens: Seven Ways LGBTQ Christians Experience Harm in the Church (Brazos Press)—Bridget Eileen Rivera led our community in a three-session discussion to grapple with how LGBTQ people are treated in the Body of Christ and consider what we need to chart a better path forward.
We caught up with Mark Glanville and Luke Glanville to talk about their latest book from InterVarsity Press, Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics. In Refuge Reimagined, the two brothers offer a new approach to compassion for displaced people: a biblical ethic of kinship.
We talk with Makoto Fujimura about his art, the Japanese tradition of kintsugi, and the intersection of justice.
By Rev. Letiah Fraser
Identity is more than a set of governmental and societal markers that are meant to label and classify human beings like objects.
By Matthew Hunsberger
I love stories. As followers of Christ, we are a people of story. Our faith is grounded in the stories we read in Scripture, the stories of our very lives, and the stories we still have the power to write…
By Tish Harrison Warren
We are dust and to dust we shall return. But first, we work.
Conflict can be a source of great discomfort and dismay, but it can also be a catalyst for deeper learning and inter/personal growth.
By Kristyn Komarnicki
The identities we embrace most healthily and holistically are those we discover through a process of self-reflection and community exploration. Brave, open-ended, deeply curious, challenging but compassionate questions are often at the heart of this discovery process.
By Randy Woodley
I make a sharp distinction between Christianity and following Jesus. Christianity has, at best, failed miserably in delivering good news to Indigenous people.