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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 Jon Carlson
In a society marked by bitter division and painful injustice, how do we love our neighbors—and our enemies?
For the next six weeks, join us every Wednesday for a visual series exploring what God’s love looks like when we live it out in our world.
Compiled by Lianne Simon, David Andrew, and Allison
What does “INTERSEX” mean?
Intersex is a broad label for people with a difference of sex development (DSD)—people whose bodies show physical characteristics of both male and female.
By Hannah Shanks
Like many, I’ve been deeply grieved by the policy of family separation at the border. For weeks I’ve cast about looking for a handhold, for an idea of what to do, for who I am to be during a desperate time like this.
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
The bangles are gold, a deeply yellow gold. My preference would be for something a bit more subtle, less yellow…but these gold bangles are so yellow because they are pure, 24-karat gold.
By Josina Guess
A two-part interview with two sisters who recently immigrated to the United States
“I want my daughter to be somebody, to surpass me, to have a better future and a better life than mine.”
Yasmin* sits up from the couch and rubs her belly.
By Josina Guess
A two-part interview with two sisters who recently immigrated to the United States
“When your back is up against the wall, you do what you have to do to survive.”
Elena* said this to me, in Spanish, after I spent over an hour listening to her and her younger sister, Yasmin*, share their immigration stories.
By John Seel, Ph.D
In the United States, Black men are far more likely to be hassled by law enforcement during routine traffic stops. It is also likely, in a conversation about this fact, that a white male will not appreciate the degree to which his privilege is
By C.S. Lewis
It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day
By Rozella Haydée White
In April of 2016, I found myself at a crossroads. I was working for my denomination at the national headquarters, one year after Dylann Roof murdered nine Black people at Mother Emmanuel AME in Charleston, South Carolina.
By Melanie Springer Mock
Like many people, my understanding of addiction has been informed primarily by mass media. I’m an inveterate watcher of 20/20 and the reality program Intervention; I am a consumer of memoirs and movies about those who
By Kristyn Komarnicki
Working for peace and understanding across deep difference
For the second year in a row, I was invited to speak to a group of international professors and researchers as part of the Dialogue Institute of Temple University’s Study of the U.S.
For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world.
By Lindsey and Sarah
Amid significant discussions about how churches relate to LGBT people, many people wonder whether churches that teach traditional sexual ethics can love LGBT people well. Part of the question relates to how people understand
By Kristyn Komarnicki
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free! (Galatians 5:1) Jesus paid the price so that we can be free, and for this reason, we can approach him with freedom, confidence, and joy.
By Beth Foster
The trees around the slaughterhouse are filled with a fatal lullaby because the mockingbirds have learned this funeral dirge of the young.
Peep. Peep. Peep.
That’s what haunts me most—even more than the puddles of blood and the truck brimming with the “waste” parts of bodies.
By Leslie Michele
A zealous, albeit flawed, examination of liturgy in contemporary churches.
In his book Ever Ancient, Ever New, Winfield Bevins makes a case for the transformative power of the ancient rituals engaged in by Christians throughout the centuries.
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