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By Andre Henry
“If a man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he has the power to lynch me, that’s my problem.” When Stokely Carmichael said these words, he underscored the connection between racism and power.
By Lindsey and Sarah
Amid significant discussions about how churches relate to LGBT people, many people wonder whether churches that teach traditional sexual ethics can love LGBT people well. Part of the question relates to how people understand
By Kristyn Komarnicki
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free! (Galatians 5:1) Jesus paid the price so that we can be free, and for this reason, we can approach him with freedom, confidence, and joy.
By Beth Foster
The trees around the slaughterhouse are filled with a fatal lullaby because the mockingbirds have learned this funeral dirge of the young.
Peep. Peep. Peep.
That’s what haunts me most—even more than the puddles of blood and the truck brimming with the “waste” parts of bodies.
By Leslie Michele
A zealous, albeit flawed, examination of liturgy in contemporary churches.
In his book Ever Ancient, Ever New, Winfield Bevins makes a case for the transformative power of the ancient rituals engaged in by Christians throughout the centuries.
By Eugene H. Peterson
If you don’t take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You’re doing too much, you’re being too much in charge.
By Dr. Ron Sider
The distribution of income and wealth is more unequal today than at any time since 1928—just before the Great Depression.
The richest 1% of Americans own more wealth than the bottom 90%.
By Matthew Soerens
In 2006, as the U.S. Senate debated a comprehensive immigration reform bill and immigrants went to the streets in massive marches, it was difficult to find a book with a distinctly evangelical perspective on the topic of immigration.
By Benjamin Corey
As I logged onto Facebook on July 4th, I saw the predictable and obligatory independence posts clogging my news feed. Offensive images of the American flag with scripture scrawled about, countless posts about how “great” we
By Adriel Rose
There’s something about poetry that is particularly grounding for me. Poetry stops time in unusual ways, quieting my chaotic mind enough to take in every word. The pictures painted in each stanza form so clearly in my imagination that I find myself lost in the author’s world.
By John T. Booth
For prison inmates, health care comes slowly and unpredictably
“You will get the health care you need, but not right away. They will delay your care by downplaying your symptoms.
By Carol J. Adams
My spouse, Bruce, has been the Associate Pastor for Community Ministries at a church in Dallas for 30 years. When we first arrived we learned that the Fourth of July barbecue hosted by the church’s senior activities group was
By Peggy Faw Gish
Denise Uwimana found herself in the midst of the Rwandan genocide, during which close to a million Tutsi were hunted and slaughtered by Hutu neighbors. Members of her family were killed.
By Ron Sider
I often say: “If you are 80 years old, love the Lord, love your wife, love your work, and your doctor says you are in good health, does it get any better than that?”
By David Lewicki
Over the past few years, our church in Atlanta has become immersed in a new ministry, our eyes opened to a deep need in the community we had never recognized before: affordable
By Sarah Withrow King
Three years ago, almost to the day, I shared the following exchange with my son, who was then not quite eight years old.
Son: “Mommy? Can I tell you one thing I’m worried about?
By Kristyn Komarnicki
One of the most important things Theater of Witness does is to help people humanize each other—to see people who are really different from themselves and be able to say, “If I had
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