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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 Taylor S. Schumann
If you’ve never personally been affected by gun violence, it’s easy to think the ripples of it haven’t affected your life, but it’s simply not true. Much of the financial burden of gun violence rests on the shoulders of taxpayers.
By Kristyn Komarnicki
When I look at the church, what gives me hope?
I try not to look at “the church,” as I used to understand that word, anyway—as an organized institution or loose network of denominations.
By Erina Kim-Eubanks
When I look at the church, what gives me hope?
I believe that in this season of unprecedented challenges—the pandemic, political upheaval, racial uprisings, unceasing grief and violence, and more—many American churches have been faced with their long-standing idols.
By Brandi Miller
When I look at the church, what gives me hope?
I am watching a movement of people who aren’t just discarding their faith but choosing a more embodied one that pays attention to people’s holistic personhood.
By Shane Claiborne
When I look at the church, what gives me hope?
The Christian landscape is much bigger than the toxic evangelicalism that so often hijacks the headlines and colonizes our faith.
By Trinh Mai
One year ago, Trinh Mai wrote this powerful letter to George Floyd upon his passing. We recently talked with the artist about where we are today in our fight for justice as well as about her own story of suffering, art, and calling people to discover beauty and purpose.
Reviewed by Matthew Watson
In her new curriculum, theologian Dr. Megan DeFranza shows herself to be a master storyteller, thoughtfully introducing and weaving the stories of those who do not fit the male-female gender binary.
By Myles Markham
When I look at the church, what gives me hope?
Candidly, I haven’t experienced a lot of hope for the church lately. I’m in a season where it would seem that even progressive mainline traditions are stifling the work of God with bureaucracy, allegiance to hierarchy, and trying to resuscitate things that maybe just need to die before they can be truly resurrected.
By Randy Woodley
When I look at the church, what gives me hope?
When I look at the church, what gives me hope is the trend of openness to hear voices different from themselves.
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
When I look at the church, what gives me hope?
The church plus God’s faithfulness give me hope. As I look at the story of God, and see the ways that God works for justice, particularly on behalf of the vulnerable, that gives me hope.
By Alexia Salvatierra
When I look at the church, what gives me hope?
What gives me hope is the vision of Latinx Millennial Christian leaders in the US and Latin America. Their visions for the church that they want to belong to and help create are so beautiful—true community, dedicated to loving each other and their neighborhood, committed to deep honesty with mutual grace, standing up for justice, creative and entrepreneurial for the gospel and the Way of Christ.
By Darren Calhoun
When I look at the church, what gives me hope?
Two things are true: The Church will survive no matter what, and the institutional church may not survive how we know it.
By Lauren Grubaugh
When I look at the church, what gives me hope?
St. Teresa of Ávila once said that clarity is freedom. The apocalypses of our own day can have a distilling effect for the Church, clarifying the Way: through justice, to liberation; through Christ, for all.
By Soong-Chan Rah
When I look at the church, what gives me hope?
Hope arises when I hear the voices of those who had previously been silenced or marginalized cry out from the depths.
By Bridget Eileen Rivera
When I look at the church, what gives me hope?
When I look at the church, I see women stepping up as leaders and holding their brothers to account; I see people of color reminding the world of God’s justice and calling the church to repentance; I see queer people persevering in the faith and living in the safety of God’s love; and I see a global body of Christ that is so much bigger than Western culture.
By Whitney Bauck
In the book Art and Soul: Signposts for Christians in the Arts, authors Hilary Brand and Adrienne Chaplin draw a parallel between modern-day art museums and religious shrines: “Go inside any gallery and the atmosphere is hushed and reverent.
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