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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 Belinda Bauman and Natalie Salminen Rude
One Million Thumbprints is an organization committed to seeking the end to violence against women and girls in conflict zones. Fueled by the story of Esperance, a Congolese woman who used her thumbprint as her signature with the request to “tell the world” her story, the heart and mission of One Million Thumbprints was born.
By Christine Sine
God, the light of your Spirit has fallen upon us,
The seal of your ownership is on us,
You have placed the Holy Spirit in our hearts.
Like tongues of fire it has renewed and restored.
By Dietrich Bonhoeffer
O God, early in the morning I cry to you.
Help me to pray
And to concentrate my thoughts on you;
I cannot do this alone.
By Shelly Miller
When you abide with God in Sabbath, an unshakable confidence shines from the inside out, enticing others toward the gift of rest as well.
By Kristyn Komarnicki
I relished this book, devouring it slowly, returning to its most delicious bits over and over again, and thanking God for the author and her spiritual adventure with every nutritious bite. And as I sit down to write this, I’m very aware of a couple of things:
By Alicia Crosby
On Saturday, May 4th, 2019, the world shifted for many people as the great writer and minister, Rachel Held Evans, transitioned from our world into the ancestral realm. I’ve long admired Rachel and am aware that her work has changed people’s lives, but it is in her passing and the swell of public lamentation that followed that I see just how much of an impact she had on this world.
By Jessica Hill
What does it mean to work for peace and justice? It means to persist in hope and faith, steadfast in our prayers and actions. Over the last three and a half decades, Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) has served as a spiritual home for those embracing the call for justice in
By Ted Loder
Eternal Friend,
grant me an ease
to breathe deeply of this moment,
this light,
By Charles Camosy
Applying our principles consistently—including when it comes to violence against voiceless non-human animals—makes the pro-life movement more effective, not less. Especially with the people we most need to get on board.
By Melanie Springer Mock
Few places are more lovely than Oregon’s Willamette Valley in springtime. After months of gray skies and persistent cold rain that teeters close to without ever quite becoming snow, a sunny spring day is a celebration.
By Kevin Singer
Sunday, May 5th marked the beginning of the Ramadan season for Muslims, which will conclude on Tuesday, June 4th. Ramadan is the most important month of the calendar for Muslims, and participating in the holiday is one of Islam’s five pillars or duties that every Muslim must observe.
By Russell Jeung, PhD
“Burmese army soldiers burned down Christian churches in our villages,” my foster daughter explained when asked about why she had to flee the Chin state of Burma.
By Cat Knarr
Ten years ago, Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish lost three daughters, Bessan, Mayar, and Aya, and one niece, Noor, to an Israeli tank shelling of his home in Gaza. It happened just before he was scheduled to do a phone interview on an Israeli TV station, which then broadcasted his grief and cry for help in the wake of horrific violence.
By Rob Barrett
When people disagree, what is there to talk about? When we invite people to dialogue across deep differences, sometimes they say, “What will we do after I say my piece and he says I’m wrong, then he says his piece and I say he’s wrong?”
Nobody wants to repeat the same, tired arguments yet again.
By Katelyn Durst
When I learned I was pregnant, I was scared
because I was the shape of the moon
and I didn’t think that my body carried enough light
to make the night sky shine.
By Dr. Ron Sider
In 2017, I was a participant in a two-day Oriented to Love (OTL) dialogue. These dialogues bring together 12 committed Christians who represent a wide range of views on LGBTQ issues in the church.