By Andy Hale This week’s guest is an opportunity to harken back to the good old days. And by “good old days,” I mean life before COVID-19 when one could travel, eat in a crowded restaurant, and have a perfectly normal conversation with a stranger on the street. Rasool Berry is the central figure of … Continue reading
By Holly Strother This year as brought about a lot of change in my life. In March, my boyfriend and I got engaged. The church I worked at hired a new pastor. In July, my aunt passed away unexpectedly. In September, I said goodbye to the youth I had been ministering to for the last … Continue reading
By Andy Hale For fun, my parents participated in two genealogy tests. The results, for the most part, were not that all surprising. We are about as Western European as Western Europeans get. What surprised us was the amount of Scandinavian and French Canadian on my mother’s side. But then again, I’ve always loved poutine … Continue reading
It’s hard to imagine being a steward of the gospel story unless one is willing to be a steward of one’s own story. That’s the assumption of the Narrative Leadership Retreat sponsored by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. A project of the Initiative for Ministerial Excellence, regional retreats on narrative leadership are meant to encourage ministers to … 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
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