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 Liz Cooledge Jenkins
In a church I used to attend, a sermon series through Paul’s letters to the Thessalonian church landed us one Sunday morning in 2 Thessalonians 3:10: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat’” (NIV).
By Chanequa Walker-Barnes
Originally published September 24, 2018
“No one with a brain really believes in religion,” the man declared.
It was an odd way to respond to my revelation that I was a seminary professor.
By Jean-Pierre Isbouts
Originally published October 2, 2017
Father, hallowed be your name. Your Kingdom come. Our daily bread give us today. And forgive us our debts, for we forgive our debtors.
By Matthew Tyson
It is through labor that we, as humans, make the world. In doing so, we make ourselves. We make reality. In this way, to solely commodify your labor and sell it in service of profit and capitalist competition can alienate you from your labor, and thus from yourself.
By Kristyn Komarnicki
In 1998, Ron Sider hired me as a part-time editor for PRISM magazine, Christians for Social Action’s flagship print publication at the time. It was the answer to a fervent prayer of mine, to do meaningful work that would not only integrate my faith but also grow it.
By Ben Lowe
I was introduced to Ron Sider at an event at Wheaton College and had a passing but lively chat about what I was working on at the time. Shortly after, I received one of Ron’s books from him in the mail, which he thought would be a helpful resource.
By Al Tizon
Dr. Ronald J. Sider passed away on Wednesday, July 27, 2022. Tributes and articles regarding his legacy have cropped up everywhere from The New York Times to Christianity Today and a growing number of personal blog entries and Facebook posts in between.
By Ron Sider
I often fail to come even close to the submission and faithfulness prayed for here, but these words represent my desire. I hope you can make these words your sincere longing as well.
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
Dear friends,
Dr. Ron Sider, our dear friend and colleague, passed away on Wednesday night, July 27.
Ron died of cardiac arrest, following a hospital stay for treatment for some ongoing health conditions.
By Kristyn Komarnicki
I live in a state of hopelessness.
Pennsylvania is one of the few states that retain both the death penalty and a life-without-parole policy. And the death penalty is the ultimate statement of despair.
By Kenji Kuramitsu
By Bernie Sheahan
I’m Bernie Sheahan. I’m creative…and mentally ill. There are many categories of mental illness; I’m an expert on just one.
By Cindy Wang Brandt
Editor’s Note: This excerpt was originally published in March 2019.
Dishes are an under-discussed topic in parenting books. While others focus on children (not sure why that is), I feel like dishes deserve much more attention simply because of the amount of space they occupy in family life.
By Liz Cooledge Jenkins
Fourth-grade child on the cross,
you did not choose this.
There is nothing in you
nor your family, friends, or schoolmates
that deserved this.
By D. Zac Niringiye
Is the absence of responsible Christian political engagement a betrayal of the gospel? Or is it what the gospel teaches?
By Amy Kenny
I am certainly not the first person to think of God as disabled.
Nancy Eiesland, who pioneered disability theology, imagined God in a sip-and-puff wheelchair. After a friend declared that her disability would be removed in heaven, Eiesland was horrified because she felt that would erase a part of who she was and how she understood God.
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