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By Kristyn Komarnicki
Love in the midst of discomfort
Love your God, love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and the prophets rest on these two commands…
Leap of Faith is a full-length documentary from Nicholas Ma and Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?) featuring pastors who commit to meeting for a year to look for a path to unity in the midst of polarized times.
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
As terror continues to unfold on our southern borders and immigrant children are taken from their parents’ arms, over 2800 women have signed a letter calling for an end to the practice of separating children from their parents at the border.
By John Seel
Millennials are abandoning the traditional church. But they are not abandoning spirituality. Is there a way to reconnect the two? The answer may be found by looking at cattle ranchers.
There are two methods of keeping cattle on a ranch.
Quote by Helen Keller
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.
~Helen Keller
By Kristyn Komarnicki
In his memoir, Costly Grace: An Evangelical Minister’s Rediscovery of Faith, Hope, and Love, Rev. Rob Schenck writes a tell-all from inside the Beltway, exposing the American church’s obsession with political power
By Prasanta Verma
i will tell you now
how pausing is kindness.
pausing is the white space,
white space around words.
By Sarah Withrow King
“I’m not that scary,” Danny Concannon says to C.J. Cregg in the final season of The West Wing. “I just want to talk.”
If you are vegan, or vegetarian, or another sort of animal-friendly Christian, these two sentences from Danny probably capture some of the feelings you have as you try to build relationships in your corner of the world.
Reading from Matthew 25
For I was hungry
and you gave me food.
I was thirsty
and you gave me drink…
By Kevin Singer
If you are a Christian, you are part of a refugee story. You join the ranks of Abraham, who took a dangerous journey from his homeland of Ur to the land of Canaan; Joseph, who was carried into Egypt after being sold into slavery by his brothers; and Moses, who fled to the wilderness of Midian after he took the life of a brutal Egyptian slave master.
Spotlight on Ghada Ghazal
In this second video from the Center for Women, Faith & Leadership, watch Ghada Ghazal talk about her search to discover who God created her to be.
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
My family’s immigration journey included a significant period time when my mother was separated from her mother—my grandmother was an American citizen of Japanese descent, returning to work in the US. But those were different times.
By Michael McRay
Not too long ago, a friend of mine needed to talk about a “work dilemma.” He spent most of his time advocating for condemned men in prison, investigating their cases, learning their stories, building relationships, and finding any mitigating factors that might get them relief.
By Melanie Springer Mock
At first glance, Kate Bowler appears to be experiencing the life nearly every author longs for. Her book, Everything Happens For a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved, landed on the New York Times bestseller list.
By John Seel
With the recent, beautiful wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, it’s an opportune time to ask: what is the meaning of sex, marriage, and love?
By Andrea Smith
Dr. James Cone, the founder of Black liberation theology, passed away on April 28, 2018. Dr. Cone became famous during President Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign, during the controversy surrounding Jeremiah White.
Spotlight on Sister Patricia Chinyere Oranefo
I dream that a day will come when women will have a position, that they will have voice in our country. Because when they have voice, some of the things that we see as injustice, we can rearrange things. We can change things.
By Reesheda Graham-Washington and Shawn Casselberry
A thirty-minute ferry ride from Cape Town, South Africa, on the mainland, Robben Island is the site of the high-security prison where Nelson Mandela spent eighteen years for his opposition to the apartheid system.
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