by Sue Smith | Aug 7, 2019 | Opinion
People don’t choose lightly to flee their countries carrying only a few belongings in a backpack, with the knowledge that they may never see their families again. It’s not an adventure, not a “the grass is greener on the other side” kind of thing, not a search for the...
by Starlette Thomas | Aug 6, 2019 | Opinion
Writer James Baldwin says rightly, “The effort not to know what one knows is the most corrupting effort one can make.” Still, the North American church is so empire-minded that it is of no earthly good. Left behind by a generation or two, the North American church...
by Joseph Tobias | Aug 6, 2019 | Opinion
You likely have been deceived by social media relationships and connections with fellow church members at some point. A Facebook “friend request” that you thought was a hand of friendship was shattered when you met your new online friend in the fellowship hall after...
by Alan Rudnick | Aug 6, 2019 | Opinion
What would it be like to be praying, singing and worshipping in a church service and to be nearly blown to pieces by a bomb? This grotesque thought, based on reality, was on my mind as I sat in 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, while attending Baptist...
by Leslye Colvin | Aug 5, 2019 | Christian Nationalism, Opinion
In the United States, Christian nationalism is a disingenuous oxymoron spawned by the conflation of a distorted view of Christianity and a political ideology that romanticizes parts of the nation’s history. A variety of peoples participating in a series of events...
by Marilee White | Aug 5, 2019 | Opinion
There is a liberating spirit in Cuba. You may think I am talking about a spirit of revolution, but what I am talking about is dance. I traveled to Cuba recently with seven other students enrolled in the Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI) master of divinity program at...
