Lament, Despair, and Hope
By Rick Barry
Many evangelical Christians confuse lamentation for despair. This confusion can cut us off from one of the most powerful tools in our spiritual arsenal.
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By Rick Barry
Many evangelical Christians confuse lamentation for despair. This confusion can cut us off from one of the most powerful tools in our spiritual arsenal.
By Christina Ray Stanton
“As several shots rang out, I crouched behind a dumpster. Then I glanced behind me and caught Black Sean’s eye. What were we doing in the middle of a shoot-out?”
These are the opening sentences of Pastor Dimas Salaberrios’ 2015 autobiography, Street God.
By Michelle Ferrigno Warren
Injustice is not okay. In recent years, people have been waking up, some for the first time, to the reality that systems do not work for everyone, that elections are important, and that leadership is needed to unite a divided people.
By Dr. Margaret Kim Peterson
Originally published January 27, 2017
Has anyone—a family member, a friend, a pastor, a doctor—ever asked you this question? Have you ever initiated a conversation with someone else about what your wishes are for the end of your life, or what their wishes are for the end of theirs?
By Love Sechrest
Reading with an eye toward questions of race relations and gender arrangements will inevitably involve having our eyes drawn to the situations, stories, and characters in the biblical texts that depict intergroup conflict and those that feature women.
By Christine Sine
In Norman Wirzba’s wonderful book Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating he comments: “Eating is about extending hospitality and making room for others to find life by sharing in our own….
By Melanie Springer Mock
My first encounter with Christian celebrity occurred in 1983, when Tony Campolo preached to a humid Lehigh University gymnasium packed with Mennonite teens. I already knew Campolo’s sermons, having listened to them on tape cassettes my parents played during road trips.
By Anna Redsand
Originally published 16 February 2021
A Review of Decolonizing Evangelicalism by Randy S. Woodley and Bo C. Sanders
Shortly before he passed on, my friend, Diné (Navajo) scholar Larry Emerson, said to me, “You should write about decolonizing Christianity.
With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Rich Villodas
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With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Kristyn Komarnicki
Season 1, Episode 9
Rerun: Season 6, Episode 11.
This week, Nikki Toyama-Szeto talks with Kristyn Komarnicki (CSA’s Director of Dialogue & Convening / Program Manager for Oriented to Love) about practical tips for transforming conflict through curiosity.
With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Ron Sider
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With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Brandi Miller
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With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Candice Benbow
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With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Jenny Yang
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With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Cole Arthur Riley
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With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Drew Jackson
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By Natalia Kohn, Nemi Vega Quiñones, and Kristy Garza Robinson
Originally published January 15, 2019
Esther was a Jewish woman being raised by a cousin named Mordecai. The Jews were an ethnic minority community displaced and dispersed all over the provinces of King Xerxes of Persia.
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