Thank you, Tony
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
“I first encountered Tony, as many others did, as he preached from a big stage in front of a lot of people…”
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By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
“I first encountered Tony, as many others did, as he preached from a big stage in front of a lot of people…”
By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Service starts at 11:00 am at St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church. In eight months, Leah and I have never yet been on time. When we chain our bikes to the handrail on the handicap ramp, I can hear the hum of the electric organ and the pulse of hands clapping.
By Tania DoCarmo, Charlie Smith-Brake, and Julia Smith-Brake
There’s no doubt the church cares about orphans. For decades we’ve prayed, given money, and participated in international campaigns for “AIDS orphans” in Africa. We’ve supported orphans through child sponsorship,
By Jim Baton
Many of my American friends who take a walk through their neighborhoods today will be greeted by an assortment of scary decorations in front of their neighbors’ homes: carved pumpkins, skeletons, witches, ghosts, gravestones, giant spiders, black cats.
By Gena Thomas
When I walked into the social worker’s office, Julia was sitting there in a brand-new, bright-pink Barbie T-shirt. The social worker said they’d found the T-shirt in their clothing closet, and Julia wanted it. Beautiful, soft onyx curls framed
By Karyn Bigelow
For many Latinos, as for other people of color, climate change is a daily lived experience.
Whether they live in Central, North, or South America, their lives are touched in some way by climate change.
By Friends at Churches for Middle East Peace
Podcast: Parenting & Childhood Under Occupation
The Women Behind the Wall podcast highlights female voices from the Holy Land, and is hosted and produced solely by women who live and work in Jerusalem.
By Marc Havener
When I asked a young employee of a community health clinic what motivates her in a career that includes long, exhausting days, surrounded by people with incredible needs, she gave me a look that seemed to wonder how I could not know.
By St. Seraphim of Sarov
We cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other.
Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kindles joy in the heart of one who receives.
By Audette Fulbright Fulson
Did you rise this morning,
broken and hungover
with weariness and pain
and rage tattered from waving too long in a brutal wind?
By Friends at Churches for Middle East Peace
Episode 4: Finding Light in Darkness
The Women Behind the Wall podcast highlights female voices from the Holy Land, and is hosted and produced solely by women who live and work in Jerusalem.
By Drick Boyd
Every October, the United States observes Columbus Day.
By Lianne Simon and Allison
Q: “When in relationship with a person who desires to see Scriptural proof to ‘accept’ intersex people, how do you handle this, and do you have references for them?”
A: I have been told that intersex is a result of the Fall.
By Catherine Meeks and Nibs Stroupe
Why Ida B. Wells? Because she did the work no one else would do. She kept showing up where she wasn’t wanted. She worked with people who would work with her.
Speakers: Allison, Lianne Simon, and David Andrew
A conversation with Christians who have transgender or intersex experiences
By Rev. Lori G. Baynard
Why the Amber Guyger sentencing caused an uproar among people of faith
The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw. How long, Oh Lord will I call for help, and you will not hear?
By Lianne Simon
Jennifer Anne Cox wrote this book as an evangelical response to intersex. Her message to evangelical Christians is this: the Gospel is as much for someone with an intersex condition as it is for you. Stop abusing these people.
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