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 Alia Joy
I remember reading the book of Ruth as a new Christian, and I came to the verse where Naomi says, “The Lord’s hand has turned against me” (1:13 NIV). I thought, You can’t talk to God like that.
By Michael Rhodes
A lot of press has been given over the years to the Old Testament laws regarding the poor, the widow, the orphan, and the alien. In looking recently at the gleaning laws
By Prasanta Verma
Scattered, broken particles
must be remade
after life on earth snaps,
crushes each bone, sinew,
By Bonnie O’Neil
I sat glued to the television screen for hours, transfixed by the plumes of fire and smoke rising to the heavens above Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral. Grief-stricken, I hung on every word the reporters shared of the potential fate of this sacred space.
By Kevin Singer and Chris Stackaruk
Evangelical students respond to the Christchurch shootings
On March 15th, a white supremacist carried out a horrific terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 50 and injuring 50 others as they prayed.
By Aline Mello
There are certain things I have to believe.
I have to believe that God is good. Though it doesn’t always seem like He is. It doesn’t seem like His plans are always good.
By Adam L. Gustine
I don’t think it comes as a surprise to note that the record on justice is spotty at best for white evangelicals. It has not been part of our normative framework for thinking about the gospel and the mission of the church.
By Ed Cyzewski
As Thomas Merton examined himself and his contributions to the spiritual life, he saw someone who was fragile, in need of God’s help, and still very much determined to share God’s life and peace with others.
By Christine Aroney-Sine
God’s bequest of play buffers us from the spiritual burnout so rampant in our faith communities.
My Lenten theme this year is Breaking Down Walls. When I chose this theme I was not just thinking of the controversy about the wall on the U.S/Mexican border.
By Andrew Marin
Recent research reveals that 76 percent of LGBT people who have left the church are open to returning to their faith community.
By Jon Carlson
When pastors pretend to be style icons, they’re carrying on a long lineage that erroneously equates material wealth with divine blessing.
GQ first noticed the trend in 2015, then again in 2017: celebrity pastors outfitting themselves in incredibly trendy—and incredibly expensive—designer streetwear.
By Ed Cyzewski
At the start of the morning work at his monastery, author and monk Thomas Merton made the following observation about the newest members of his Trappist order:
By Dale D. Gehman
In the book Beating Guns, authors Shane Claiborne and Mennonite blacksmith Michael Martin take a frank look at our country with regards to gun violence. In their thirty-seven-city Beating Guns Tour, Shane and Michael feature the live transformation of a gun into a garden tool at each stop…and mix worship, song, prayer, art, and stories as a call to look into our own hearts and see that this is not only a gun issue but a heart issue.
By Benjamin Capps
For those of you who have already failed on your Lenten commitments, I want you to know, I’m with you.
By now it is probably evident, even to the most occasional of church attenders, that we have thoroughly entered into the long, somber, and glorious tunnel of Lent.
By Ed Cyzewski
The first time I attempted to pray in silence, I struggled to sit still for 15 minutes, saw no results, and then thought to myself, “Well, that didn’t work.”
As it turns out, writer and activist Thomas Merton had me pegged a few decades earlier:
By Elrena Evans
The year my eldest daughter was in kindergarten, she began bugging me to take her to the Maundy Thursday foot-washing service at our church six weeks before the event.
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