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To celebrate the October 2021 release of her new book—Heavy Burdens: Seven Ways LGBTQ Christians Experience Harm in the Church (Brazos Press)—Bridget Eileen Rivera led our community in a three-session discussion to grapple with how LGBTQ people are treated in the Body of Christ and consider what we need to chart a better path forward.
We caught up with Mark Glanville and Luke Glanville to talk about their latest book from InterVarsity Press, Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics. In Refuge Reimagined, the two brothers offer a new approach to compassion for displaced people: a biblical ethic of kinship.
We talk with Makoto Fujimura about his art, the Japanese tradition of kintsugi, and the intersection of justice.
By Rev. Letiah Fraser
Identity is more than a set of governmental and societal markers that are meant to label and classify human beings like objects.
By Matthew Hunsberger
I love stories. As followers of Christ, we are a people of story. Our faith is grounded in the stories we read in Scripture, the stories of our very lives, and the stories we still have the power to write…
By Tish Harrison Warren
We are dust and to dust we shall return. But first, we work.
Conflict can be a source of great discomfort and dismay, but it can also be a catalyst for deeper learning and inter/personal growth.
By Kristyn Komarnicki
The identities we embrace most healthily and holistically are those we discover through a process of self-reflection and community exploration. Brave, open-ended, deeply curious, challenging but compassionate questions are often at the heart of this discovery process.
By Randy Woodley
I make a sharp distinction between Christianity and following Jesus. Christianity has, at best, failed miserably in delivering good news to Indigenous people.
We spoke with Dr. Joshua McNall—associate professor of pastoral theology, ambassador of church relations, and director of the honors program at Oklahoma Wesleyan University—about his latest book, Perhaps: Reclaiming the Space Between Doubt and Dogmatism, published by InterVarsity Press.
By Kate Morrissey
Photos by Ariana Drehsler
As the late morning service begins at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in San Diego’s North Park, the congregation’s songs reach through the floor to the commercial kitchen in the building’s basement.
By Kristyn Komarnicki
I am in a bilingual, transnational marriage. I’ve lived in four countries on three continents. In my native country now, I live in a racially mixed neighborhood. I cultivate friendships with people from around the world.
Rivera invites us to imagine a world in which God’s LGBTQ+ children are given the space and safety they need to ask questions, seek God’s will for their lives, and flourish, no matter where the Spirit and their consciences lead them.
By Jean Nangwala
Because of the prevalence of sexual violence in our world, we must stop sexist comments, behavior, and policies that degrade, demean, and objectify the bodies of women. We must also surround survivors with support so that they can find healing and thrive.
We spoke with pastor and poet Drew Jackson about his latest work, God Speaks Through Wombs, a collection of poems that traverses the first eight chapters of the Gospel of Luke. Drew is the founding pastor of Hope East Village in New York City and writes poetry at the intersection of justice, peace, and contemplation, with a passion to contribute toward a more just and whole world.
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
God, you who are good. You are the one who brings the good wine to the celebration; you are the one who reveals yourself to those who are invisible and nameless.
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