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 Stanton
When Tiffany Ouyang was growing up in Plano, Texas, she pored over glamour magazines and studied red-carpet wardrobes, dreaming of one day influencing the fashion world. And she has succeeded—but not the way she ever imagined.
By Brenna Rubio
Someone I grabbed coffee with recently told me: “When I first came to City Church Long Beach, I thought it seemed pretty normal, like any other church. I mean, there was a welcome table, there were chairs, there was music.
By Christina Stanton
Growing up as the daughter of Irish immigrants in the Bronx, Tara Flynn knew she wanted to carve her own path. But she never dreamed that path would one day lead her to one of the poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods in the country.
By Andre Henry
As a boy, my greatest fear was that I’d live to see the end of the world—a fear I’d absorbed by spending time with my grandma. Mumma kept her TV on all day, but she only watched a Christian station called the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
By Christina Stanton
Editor’s note: In April we’re running a series called “Waymakers” to highlight stories about contemporary Christians engaged in unique partnerships and and justice work. Look for a new one each Monday this month.
By Joel Briggs
I think every painter labors long, meticulous hours for those little encounters, brief as they may be, when their work surprises and disrupts the viewer. The piece of art suddenly seizes the viewer, who exclaims something like, “This image!
By Jake Meador
The Christian community should see the decision to move closer together with other Christians as a way of loving the places that we share together, of serving the good of our non-Christian neighbors in that place, and even of making the place itself healthier.
By Stephen Mattson
Yemen is a country suffering from a brutal, 7-year, ongoing military conflict. The violence escalated after 2010, when Shia minorities staged a series of rebellions. These occurred within an already unstable environment due to corruption, bitter religious and partisan animosity, and political upheaval.
By Chris Chancey
After a year of learning from their refugee neighbors in a resettlement community in the Atlanta metro area. Chris and Sarah Chancey launched Amplio Recruiting to help great companies hire dependable employees from the refugee workforce.
With Juan Pablo Herrera, Beth Carlson-Malena, Elizabeth Delgado Black, and Grant Hartley
Listen in on a powerful conversation among four queer-identifying Jesus-followers, two who hold a more traditional understanding of sexuality and two who hold a more progressive understanding.
By Shane Claiborne
Editor’s note: This post was originally shared by our friends at Red Letter Christians. We pray this project by several men on Tennessee’s death row will encourage you as you reflect deeply on the sacrifice of Jesus and what this means for all of us—including those who are, as Shane says below, “condemned to die.”
I am beyond excited to share this with you.
By Matt Elsberry
Matt Elsberry is President and Chief Ecosystem Officer at LivFul, an unconventional life science company that prioritizes health access and impact before maximizing profit.
By Louise Wasilewski
Meet Louise Wasilewski, CEO and co-founder of Acivilate, a social enterprise dedicated to transforming second chances for people leaving prison, women leaving domestic violence, and those struggling with homelessness
By Candice Marie Benbow
We talk with Candice Marie Benbow, a theologian, essayist, columnist, baker, and educator whose work gives voice to Black women’s shared experiences of faith, healing, and wholeness.
By Cole Arthur Riley
We talk with Cole Arthur Riley, creator of Black Liturgies, a space for Black spiritual words of liberation, lament, rage, and rest. Her new book, “This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us,” is published by Convergent Books, a division of Penguin Random House.
With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Dante Stewart
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