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By Kristyn Komarnicki
Love in the midst of discomfort
Love your God, love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and the prophets rest on these two commands…
Leap of Faith is a full-length documentary from Nicholas Ma and Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?) featuring pastors who commit to meeting for a year to look for a path to unity in the midst of polarized times.
By Russell Rickford
Sisters and brothers: I’m delighted that you are mobilizing. Your demonstration reflects your recognition that the escalating crisis of racial terrorism requires a firm and uncompromising response.
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
After the kids are tucked into bed, I will fix a salty snack and settle into my favorite chair in front of the TV. On the agenda—watching the presidential debates.
Through the summer, I watched the conventions out of curiosity and for the fun of it.
Featuring Micky ScottBey Jones
As Christians, we follow the teachings of Jesus who repeatedly told us to love each other, love our neighbors, and love even our enemies. When we pursue a life that makes radical love visible, on earth as it is in heaven, our actions are marked and defined by love.
By Leroy Barber
by Leroy Barber
You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation.
By Leroy Barber
My heart dropped as I watched the face of Michael Brown’s mother and listened to her screams as she looked upon her son lying in the street, not being allowed to approach his body.
By Misty Irons
by Misty Irons
As someone who is a member of the Reformed branch of the conservative evangelical church, I have been asking myself what I would like to see happen in the future for us straight Christians who hold to a Side B position on homosexuality.
By Mark Charles
The challenge with Donald Trump is that he understands all too well what made America “great.” And this has presented a problem for the Republican Party, and now, with his nomination, will cause a problem for the entire country.
Reviewed by Shannon Beeby
Set in in the microcosm of a pool party for the teenage son of a Midwestern megachurch pastor, Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party takes a macrocosmic look at the questions and concerns that confront many faith communities.
By Carolyn Custis James
Anyone who has a finger on the pulse of American evangelicalism has to be wondering if the patient will survive.
During the current presidential election cycle, American evangelicalism has suffered what may prove to be a potentially lethal setback at the hands of a few evangelical leaders.
By John Seel
Life is spherical. It is lived in 3D. It is better understood from lived experience than from abstractions. It is messy, provisional, and intrinsically relational. These are the guiding insights of millennials…
By Darren Calhoun
Tomorrow will mark my sixth year of being part of counter-protest efforts at the Chicago LGBTQ Pride parade. This effort started with the “I’m Sorry” campaign in 2010. At that time, a group of people gathered together to apologize for the way the church has harmed LGBTQ communities.
By Rob Barrett
Christian practices teach us to live differently. So when the culture preaches relentless productivity and greed, we practice resting and giving. Such things don’t come naturally, but practice enables us—by the grace of God—to withstand the world’s pressures.
By Logan Paiste
You’re a Christian leader who holds the traditional view of sexuality, but you want to be a safe, loving person for LGBTQ folks like myself.
By Misty Irons
As someone who is a member of the Reformed branch of the conservative evangelical church, I have been asking myself what I would like to see happen in the future for us straight Christians who hold to a Side B position on homosexuality.
By Ben Barczi
Tonight I will be joining followers of Jesus throughout the world and throughout time as we remember the suffering of Jesus. Our hearts and minds will be drawn, once again, to consider that God is neither aloof nor distant
By Paul Alexander
Forensic Jesus on Vimeo.
by Paul Alexander
As you know, Jesus was not European or white. Jesus was Middle Eastern and Jewish, of African and Canaanite descent.
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