God’s Invitation to Welcome: Practicing Hospitality in a Divided World
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
Welcoming immigrants and refugees isn’t just an act of kindness—it’s an act of faith, revealing Jesus in the process.
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By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
Welcoming immigrants and refugees isn’t just an act of kindness—it’s an act of faith, revealing Jesus in the process.
By Roger Dowis
Regardless of what side of the issue you come down on, the legalization of marijuana within the next two years is a strong possibility. Twenty states, including the District of Columbia, have enacted laws that allow people to use medical marijuana.
By Kristyn Komarnicki
An interview with a sex-trafficking survivor
By Scott Todd
There is one institution on earth with the capacity, the presence, the credibility, the endurance, and the passion to perform the ultimate act of caring for the poor. It is the church, the body of Christ.
By Sammy Adebiyi
Five days before I preached a sermon on homosexuality, I got this comment on my blog:
Keep your phony ass bigot bulls**t and your pious sense of higher status to yourself, you piece of trash.
Reviewed by Maria Russell Kenney
The debate surrounding homosexuality is one of the most contentious in the contemporary church, polarizing communions both locally and globally. Not surprisingly, most resources either locate themselves within a party line or sacrifice rigor for amiability.
By Carole Brenton
“They can’t hear, but they’re not blind. Can’t they just read the Bible?” I get this often when I speak to groups of hearing people, who ask me questions that those serving in a spoken-language context would never be asked.
By Sarita Fowler
Many Christians unwittingly overlook the world’s third-largest unreached people group, many of whom live in the US. Although this group shares many similarities with the rest of us, their culture and language differ significantly from ours.
Ministry volunteers and secondary trauma
by Nita Belles
As I walked along Bourbon Street in New Orleans a couple of nights before the 2013 Super Bowl, my heart broke repeatedly. Young teen girls were paraded in and out of strip clubs while their pimps talked on cell phones, arranging “dates” for their victims, who would be forced to turn over every dime “earned” for providing sexual services.
By Anthony Grimes
Upheaval and hope in the 21st-century church
By Vincent Bacote
I am most hopeful in those circumstances that continue to reveal that there is the potential for the church to be a powerful witness to a holistic gospel,
By Al Tizon
What gives me hope when I consider the church? Churches that love God in creative worship; churches that acknowledge people’s brokenness;
By Craig Wong
I’m seeing, over the past 15 years, a growing embrace of humility, not only as virtue but also as paramount to recovery of the American church’s reason to exist.
By Gary Wilkerson
The reason I have great hope for the church is that in the midst of the darkest times the church shines the brightest light.
By Mae Elise Cannon
People who choose to be steadfast and to fight for biblical community even in the midst of human brokenness and suffering give me great hope.
By Danielle Shroyer
I think young people are asking great questions of the church, and those questions are pushing the church to think critically about what we believe and how we worship,
By Ron Sider
There is much to celebrate in today’s global Christianity. In my lifetime, I have seen the evangelical world move from a one-sided emphasis on evangelism to a
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