'Stochastic terror': Truth is not violence
In a turn that Orwell warned us about, dissent is considered danger, words are violence, opinions are hate, and yesterday s truths are today s terror
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Unsettling Advent 2022, Day 8
Rev. Jennifer Butler, founder of Faith in Public Life, writes that Advent begs us to notice how God’s power shows up most for people in the wilderness rather than those ensconced in the halls of power. Our hope resides in joining the cloud of witnesses who have prepared the way by paving roads through the wildernesses of human existence so that all might thrive.
How to be more vulnerable without freaking out your church
Every person needs friends who can help lighten the load of a heavy season But you should not use your position as a pastor or church leader to trap people into hearing about your problems
Breaking down Logos, Rhema, Scripture and the Bible (part 1)
The writers of the gospels and epistles never separated the Old and New Testaments They looked at all of the writings as the Scriptures
Marriage is an institution we must not give up
Marriage is an institution handed down to us over thousands of years of human society Before blowing it up, Congress should pause and recognize the many potential costs, and that there are likely to ...
Obsessing over past evils that you can't change
The question that was posted was, If you lived during the Holocaust, do you think you would have saved Jewish people As I read through the posts, I thought the discussion was interesting but ...
Unsettling Advent 2022, Day 7
Elisey Pronin, a professor at Ukrainian Baptist Theological Seminary in Lviv, Ukraine, writes that we are used to Christmas as a bright, joyful holiday. But not on the day Jesus came into the world. And also not for Ukrainians this year. But we believe in the Ukrainian sunrise, so we continue to live and fight with hope.
Canceling the 'most wonderful time of the year'
Perhaps the greatest fear of secularists, like those bureaucrats in King County trying to turn Christmas into a black-and-white winter wasteland, is the possibility that Jesus is real and that His ...
3 things I pray for my newborn son
As the world around you grows more wicked, be a shade for your children as you steward them and submit them to your Creator
In this big US city, 1 out of 4 people have food insecurity
Food insecurity may be a looming threat at the moment, but there is no way it can stand up to a united Church who knows its role in the world We are called to make a difference, and through the power ...
