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By Al Tizon
How can I believe in evangelism in this day and age? In light of my own journey to faith, how can I not?
By Landon Eckhardt
How one church helps congregants integrate their faith with their work
By David Gushee
A kingdom reframing of Christian mission, as I argued in part 1 of this article, helps settle the evangelism vs. social action debate, once and for all. Let’s hope we never have to revisit it.
By David Gushee
As you read this, our nation will be preparing to inaugurate a new president. Half the country will be thrilled; the other half will be outraged.
By Matt
A look at what happens when we’re willing to be misunderstood for the sake of love
We were a dozen participants, united in professing Christian faith, but representing a variety of sexual orientations and theological positions on same-sex sexual relationships.
By Craig Wong
The political theater around the topic of immigration can best be described as painfully comic, especially in election seasons, as each candidate frets and spins in a clumsy attempt to communicate a coherent position.
By Charles Metcalf
It was a Tuesday night, and I found myself in a strange yet familiar place. I had been invited to attend a Bible study. Nothing new here. The unfamiliarity came from the fact that this Bible study was bilingual.
By Dannah Gresh and Juli Slattery
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (John 10:10)
When the current wave of erotica hit us, the term “mommy porn” came with it.
Interview by Tim Otto
It’s about human dignity and Christian community
By Margaret Kim Peterson
There is something in AIDS to offend everyone. Social conservatives are appalled by the sexual licentiousness that facilitates the spread of AIDS. Social liberals are dismayed that something as good as sex could possibly have fatal consequences.
By Ray Highfield
In the 1980s we started a ministry to educate the church about the deadly HIV virus. We provided care and housing for people with HIV and AIDS. We reached out to people where they were, sharing Jesus’ love with people we sometimes called the “unwanted harvest.” There are so many people who are hungry to hear about Christ’s love for them.
Reviewed by Gabriel Blanchard
Wendy VanderWal-Gritter has spent more than 10 years leading New Directions Ministries, a Canadian group formerly under the umbrella of Exodus International. She and the ministry she leads have since moved out of an ex-gay paradigm.
By Joshua Gonnerman
A person’s story requires more than an understanding of what has happened up to this point. We also need a plot outline and trajectory, to help us sense how the rest of our lives might unfold.
By Kathy Kwon
These days, I wonder about the possibility of certain theological disagreements in and of themselves being more “right” than any of their comprising opposing theological positions.
In other words, is theological disagreement always primarily about defending propositional truths?
By Shane Bauman
On the night before his crucifixion, Jesus told his disciples that he would be leaving them soon. The news of Jesus’ upcoming departure upset his disciples, and I can imagine their concern.
An interview with Michelle Alexander
Denouncing our present system as “a caste-like system that locks millions of Americans into permanent second-class status,” Alexander marshals both hard data and human stories to advocate for laws that would reverse our country’s escalating prison population.
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