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By Liz Cooledge Jenkins
Over the past few months, many relatively-privileged people in the U.S. have experienced the terror and overwhelm of empire’s destructive violence in a highly personal way for the first time.
But others have been processing the horrors of living under the thumb of empire for a long time already.
By Dr. Ron Sider
The distribution of income and wealth is more unequal today than at any time since 1928—just before the Great Depression.
The richest 1% of Americans own more wealth than the bottom 90%.
By Matthew Soerens
In 2006, as the U.S. Senate debated a comprehensive immigration reform bill and immigrants went to the streets in massive marches, it was difficult to find a book with a distinctly evangelical perspective on the topic of immigration.
By Benjamin Corey
As I logged onto Facebook on July 4th, I saw the predictable and obligatory independence posts clogging my news feed. Offensive images of the American flag with scripture scrawled about, countless posts about how “great” we
By Adriel Rose
There’s something about poetry that is particularly grounding for me. Poetry stops time in unusual ways, quieting my chaotic mind enough to take in every word. The pictures painted in each stanza form so clearly in my imagination that I find myself lost in the author’s world.
By John T. Booth
For prison inmates, health care comes slowly and unpredictably
“You will get the health care you need, but not right away. They will delay your care by downplaying your symptoms.
By Carol J. Adams
My spouse, Bruce, has been the Associate Pastor for Community Ministries at a church in Dallas for 30 years. When we first arrived we learned that the Fourth of July barbecue hosted by the church’s senior activities group was
By Peggy Faw Gish
Denise Uwimana found herself in the midst of the Rwandan genocide, during which close to a million Tutsi were hunted and slaughtered by Hutu neighbors. Members of her family were killed.
By Ron Sider
I often say: “If you are 80 years old, love the Lord, love your wife, love your work, and your doctor says you are in good health, does it get any better than that?”
By David Lewicki
Over the past few years, our church in Atlanta has become immersed in a new ministry, our eyes opened to a deep need in the community we had never recognized before: affordable
By Sarah Withrow King
Three years ago, almost to the day, I shared the following exchange with my son, who was then not quite eight years old.
Son: “Mommy? Can I tell you one thing I’m worried about?
By Kristyn Komarnicki
One of the most important things Theater of Witness does is to help people humanize each other—to see people who are really different from themselves and be able to say, “If I had
By Sarah Quezada
Sarah Quezadastop. She discovered two brothers who were worried about their sister. The trio was hungry and thirsty. The young woman, Esmeralda, was dehydrated and had untreated wounds that appeared
I loved my moments at the various holy sites like the Church of the Nativity, Sea of Galilee, Garden of Gethsemane, and the Via Dolorosa. All of these places are sacred to my faith and I treasure their memories.
By Kristyn Komarnicki
Today marks three years since the Pulse Nightclub shooting, the deadliest incident of violence against LGBTQ people in U.S. history, killing 49. While many rallied with support in the aftermath, far too many
By Rev. Don Ng
Growing up in a Chinese-American home, there was always some kind of meat dish. Even if there wasn’t enough money to buy a prime cut of beef, there was always lop-cheung, sausages that came tied in bunches with the string used to dry them in the butcher shop.
By Marvin Perkins Jr.
Watch as Give Back Films documents Marvin Perkins Jr., who is living without a home, reciting a poem he wrote about his life.