By Jana Atkinson The idea that I am a part of God’s story is something I never thought or believed until Jesus came in and radically changed my perspective. We live in a world that is full of broken people. I spent a great deal of my life as one of these broken people. I … Continue reading
By Andy Hale If any good has come out of the year 2020, it might be that many Americans’ blinders to systemic racism have come off. But why did we ever think that it went away? Did we honestly believe that constitutional legislation would change the hearts and minds of the American landscape? But before … Continue reading
By Andy Hale “You are just preaching a Democratic agenda,” a former church member told me. Puzzled by such a bold and accusatory statement, I asked a few clarifying questions. This person insisted that they’d rather me stick to the Bible than a political agenda from the pulpit. I tried my best to pastorally explain … Continue reading
By Kristan Pitts Advent is a season of paradox. It’s a season where we hold in tension the celebration of the birth of Christ and the anticipation of Christ’s second coming. 2020 has been an exercise of what it means to exist in tension. We have experienced a pandemic, increased visibility of structural injustice, polarizing political … Continue reading
By Ron Hinson A novel coronavirus emergence is an outcome of life cycles of ever-present change within the biological ecosystems of our earth. Prevention or response to such events can be marked by the false assumptions that we can sustainably “control” biology when, in truth, each new event marks a new scenario that we may … Continue reading
“Do you know what I want? I want justice—oceans of it. I want fairness—rivers of it. That’s what I want. That’s all I want.” (Amos 5:24, The Message) Anyone who is a parent, a teacher, a youth minister, anyone who works with children has had the experience of a child loudly protesting, “That’s not fair!” … Continue reading
Ramachandra, Vinoth. 1999. Faiths in conflict?: Christian integrity in a multicultural world. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press. Dr. Vinoth Ramachandra, Secretary for Dialogue and Social Engagement (Asia) for International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), lives in Sri Lanka. Dr Ramachandra holds bachelors and doctoral degrees in nuclear engineering from the University of London. In 1980, … Continue reading
On March 28, a fax came into our church office addressed to me by name. The fax was a letter signed “From Concerned Christians”. The letter began by quoting 2 Samuel 23:3. It went on to say, “There is a man, with the ambition to become a ruler, proselytizing among the towns and villages of North … Continue reading
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