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Rose Marie Berger, a senior editor at Sojourners magazine, reflects on Advent as a time of waiting. During Advent, we wait for something that is coming — we prepare for an arrival. We think of it as a joyful season, a season of sweet anticipation. But Advent is also a season of fasting, of hunkering down, of stripping away what is known to prepare for what is unknown.
Consequently, we have the tragedy of someone who never has the assurance of salvation, because they ve never heard a biblical presentation of the Gospel
No one should have to live in fear of discrimination or violence simply because of their faith, and with collective action, we can create a world where all people are free to worship without fear
Eden was a paradise not only because of its physical boundaries, but the spiritual, moral, institutional, territorial, and social as well
Let s engage with our loved ones who have a cancer diagnosis with that in mind
For the Republicans, the primary goal must be combatting what they believe to be a dangerous political agenda With that goal firmly in mind, they can then jostle for the right to lead their party
In this issue of A Public Witness, Brian Kaylor introduces us to 10 gifts the proud “Christian Nationalist” on your list will love. But please don’t buy these unless you want to end up on the naughty list (and make the baby Jesus cry). Instead, these gift suggestions show us what it can look like to merge Christian and American identities in problematic ways.
Andre Khudyakov, a Ukrainian Baptist pastor, reflects on how we tend to read the Bible as stories about what happened centuries ago as well as descriptions of events that will take place far in the future. So, we place ourselves in a “safe zone in the middle” and we become like observers and commentators of biblical events from the past and those in the future and we never allow our minds to embrace its relevance to our lifetime.
Now I see the hijab as so many of my fellow Iranians see it a symbol of citizens unable to express themselves freely and make their own choices
Giving traditions such as these teach the truth to even the very young that it is better to give than to receive Giving to others indwells the giver with a unique joy that cannot be reproduced
