On Peace: Prayers & Reflections
By Liz Cooledge Jenkins
God,
Sometimes we have no idea what peace would mean.
It’s all too difficult.
Everything in us is tired.
On Joy: Prayers & Reflections
By Liz Cooledge Jenkins
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a 4-part series for Advent 2022 by Liz Cooledge Jenkins
God,
There is a space within us empty until filled with joy.
Just One Suitcase
By Lisa Rodriguez-Watson
“It must have been so difficult to leave her life, her friends, her family and have only one suitcase to take with her,” I remarked to my abuela as we talked about her sister, Raquel, who had recently defected from Cuba to the United States while on a government trip.
On Love: Prayers & Reflections
By Liz Cooledge Jenkins
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a 4-part series for Advent 2022 by Liz Cooledge-Jenkins
God,
Your love is unbounded.
Your love unbinds us.
On Hope: Prayers & Reflections
By Liz Cooledge Jenkins
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a 4-part series for Advent 2022 by Liz Cooledge-Jenkins
God,
Power runs through our world
in such perverse ways.
More Ancient Truths: A Review of "Becoming Coztōtōtl"
By Aline Mello
Originally published October 4, 2020
My first encounter with Tejana writer Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros was through her Twitter account, where she asks thoughtful questions and offers kindness in her comments to poets, Christian writers, and anyone else who engages with her.
Walking Into the Resistance
By Michelle Ferrigno Warren
Injustice is not okay. In recent years, people have been waking up, some for the first time, to the reality that systems do not work for everyone, that elections are important, and that leadership is needed to unite a divided people.
If a Person Doesn’t Work, Let Them Eat Anyway
By Liz Cooledge Jenkins
In a church I used to attend, a sermon series through Paul’s letters to the Thessalonian church landed us one Sunday morning in 2 Thessalonians 3:10: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat’” (NIV).
Fourth Grade Child, Crucified
By Liz Cooledge Jenkins
Fourth-grade child on the cross,
you did not choose this.
There is nothing in you
nor your family, friends, or schoolmates
that deserved this.
Webinar: “Members of the Same Body”—A conversation with theologically diverse LGB Christians
With Juan Pablo Herrera, Beth Carlson-Malena, Elizabeth Delgado Black, and Grant Hartley
Listen in on a powerful conversation among four queer-identifying Jesus-followers, two who hold a more traditional understanding of sexuality and two who hold a more progressive understanding.