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By Matthew Tyson
Allow me to begin with a direct and simple premise: For the Christian: the death penalty is inadmissible.
By this, I mean that the death penalty stands in opposition to the transformative power of Christ, the gospel’s message of redemption, and the mission handed down to Christians by Jesus himself.
By Aimee Fritz
I’ll admit I’m tired of hearing about the border wall every day. Depending on the news outlet, someone is either lamenting the separation of children from parents, tear gas, and the loss of America’s compassion and generosity; or spitting mad about the loss of America’s jobs, safety, and identity.
By Daniel Weiss
Dear Lord, God of heaven and earth, Creator of all things visible and invisible, in your mercy hear our prayers.
Our Father, we have taken the goodness of your creation and twisted it into something wicked and shameful.
By Joshua Pease
I’ve always been interested in the idea of “paradigm shifts.” Paradigm shifts are those rare moments in life when something profound slams into your brain, spins you around in circles, and as the vertigo fades and life snaps into focus, you realize everything looks different.
By Chad Allen
A little while back, I took a closer look than I had before at some introductory pages in The Book of Common Prayer (I’m Episcopalian) and found these almost universally ignored instructions under the heading “Days of Special Devotion”:
By Doug Baker
In evangelical culture, we sometimes learn to treat doubt and faith as opposites. We tell stories of how we used to doubt, but God rescued us and brought us to faith. Often, we think it is best to flee situations that challenge our faith and lead us into doubt.
By Veronica Squires and Breanna Lathrop
Poverty is a strong predictor of mortality and a critical social determinant of health. The Department of Health and Human Services lists poverty as a key component of economic stability.
By Sarah Withrow King
CreatureKind spent the latter part of December and the first week of January on the road, first exhibiting and talking to attendees of InterVarsity’s Urbana Missions Conference and then the Society of Christian Ethics annual meeting (held in conjunction with the Society of Jewish Ethics and the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics).
By Stephen Matton
Sometimes, we become so accustomed to reading certain verses from the Bible that their impact begins to lose its punch. Take, for example, some of the many passages about love. These verses that we associate with weddings and coffee mugs and greeting cards are actually calling us to do very difficult things.
By Elrena Evans
Praise the Lord.
Praise God in his sanctuary;
praise him in his mighty heavens.
Praise him for his acts of power;
By Tegan Brozyna
I was fortunate to earn my art degree at a faith-based college that was serious about both art and faith. I vividly remember my first art course in college; we were all so eager and nervous about creating and showing our work.
By Morgan Guyton
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The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not seize it. ~ John 1:5
The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes.
By Katelyn Durst
This time my body will be the map. Each limb burning with the cities that left me breathless and
took the lights in my eyes and made them exit signs from or to the darkness
depending on which way you are going,
and I will follow.
By Gillian Marchenko
I drive out to the suburbs of Chicago for the trial. They administer a quick medical exam: blood pressure, urine sample, reflexes, nose, ears, deep breaths while a cold stethoscope pressed against my chest.
By Harold Dean Trulear
As a young adult Episcopalian, I was confronted by a graduate school colleague who asked me how I could stand to say the “same printed prayers every week.” After giving it some thought, I responded to my friend, “Baptists say the same prayers every week, too.
By Aimee Fritz
Author Brett McCracken posed a question on his blog, asking his readers “to think about what sorts of ‘knowledge groups,’ and in what proportion, feed a healthy life of true wisdom and true joy.” Brett summarized it like this:
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“What would it mean if, instead of trying to explain the gospel in terms of our modern scientific culture, we tried to explain our culture in terms of the gospel?”
– Lesslie Newbigin
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