Resisting the Single Story: What Advent Teaches About Power
By Laurie Nichols
Every powerful system has a way of telling its own story.
It tells us who matters, who gets to speak, and who should stay quiet. It rewards certainty and punishes nuance.
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By Laurie Nichols
Every powerful system has a way of telling its own story.
It tells us who matters, who gets to speak, and who should stay quiet. It rewards certainty and punishes nuance.
By Friends at Churches for Middle East Peace
Podcast Episode #6: Two Cities Within One
The Women Behind the Wall podcast highlights female voices from the Holy Land, and is hosted and produced solely by women who live and work in Jerusalem.
By Jason Koon
“Why is our church still using Styrofoam when we have meals together?”
The question struck me as strange, not because I disagreed with the thought behind it, and not even because I thought it was unimportant.
By Jean Neely
According to the World Health Organization, depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. This is understandable, given the state of the world and the nature of depression.
Major depression is a whole-body illness.
By Sarah Withrow King
Tent of Nations is a 100-acre organic farm and educational organization that seeks peace and reconciliation in the occupied territories of Palestine.
As our tour bus comes to a slow stop in front of a wall of rocks and rubble, we disembark into the bright, breezy day.
By Friends at Churches for Middle East Peace
Podcast Episode #5: A Barrier to Families
The Women Behind the Wall podcast highlights female voices from the Holy Land, and is hosted and produced solely by women who live and work in Jerusalem.
By Troy Konicki
Lying in bed my first night of college, I reflected on the day:
By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Service starts at 11:00 am at St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church. In eight months, Leah and I have never yet been on time. When we chain our bikes to the handrail on the handicap ramp, I can hear the hum of the electric organ and the pulse of hands clapping.
By Tania DoCarmo, Charlie Smith-Brake, and Julia Smith-Brake
There’s no doubt the church cares about orphans. For decades we’ve prayed, given money, and participated in international campaigns for “AIDS orphans” in Africa. We’ve supported orphans through child sponsorship,
By Jim Baton
Many of my American friends who take a walk through their neighborhoods today will be greeted by an assortment of scary decorations in front of their neighbors’ homes: carved pumpkins, skeletons, witches, ghosts, gravestones, giant spiders, black cats.
By Gena Thomas
When I walked into the social worker’s office, Julia was sitting there in a brand-new, bright-pink Barbie T-shirt. The social worker said they’d found the T-shirt in their clothing closet, and Julia wanted it. Beautiful, soft onyx curls framed
By Karyn Bigelow
For many Latinos, as for other people of color, climate change is a daily lived experience.
Whether they live in Central, North, or South America, their lives are touched in some way by climate change.
By Friends at Churches for Middle East Peace
Podcast: Parenting & Childhood Under Occupation
The Women Behind the Wall podcast highlights female voices from the Holy Land, and is hosted and produced solely by women who live and work in Jerusalem.
By Marc Havener
When I asked a young employee of a community health clinic what motivates her in a career that includes long, exhausting days, surrounded by people with incredible needs, she gave me a look that seemed to wonder how I could not know.
By St. Seraphim of Sarov
We cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other.
Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kindles joy in the heart of one who receives.
By Audette Fulbright Fulson
Did you rise this morning,
broken and hungover
with weariness and pain
and rage tattered from waving too long in a brutal wind?
By Friends at Churches for Middle East Peace
Episode 4: Finding Light in Darkness
The Women Behind the Wall podcast highlights female voices from the Holy Land, and is hosted and produced solely by women who live and work in Jerusalem.