by Rose Khouri | May 28, 2015 | Opinion
Stories from two different ethnic minorities in the Arab Muslim world – the Kurds and the Algerian Amazigh (historically known as the Berbers) – provide insight into faith and social identity. I spoke with a young Amazigh woman about how her people...
by Rose Khouri | May 27, 2015 | Opinion
Western academia is filled with research on the effects of a colonialist, imperialistic Christianity and its intersection with modern identities. As my colleague Jesse Wheeler alluded to recently, from the native peoples of the modern-day United States to the...
by Guy Sayles | May 27, 2015 | Opinion
I struggled to reclaim faith early in my college years. At least that’s what the struggle seemed to be about as I was living through it. Looking back, it seems more likely that I was actually struggling for a way to let myself be reclaimed by a loving God....
by Bill Wilson | May 27, 2015 | Opinion
Richard Blackburn, a Lombard Peace Center trainer, was a featured speaker at a recent training event for congregational conflict interventionists. “When I look into the history of churches I go into for a conflict intervention, I almost always find they had a...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 26, 2015 | Opinion
I love to travel, but it comes with a variety of hardships. The feeling of being herded like cattle at the airport, long flights in cramped seats, long lines at passport control, jet lag … all can take a toll. Adjusting to different foods is an adventure in...
by Stuart Blythe | May 26, 2015 | Opinion
Sometimes after teaching or preaching about figures I may wish to describe as “prophetic,” people have sometimes commented, “But what are the big issues today?” This question is asked no doubt with the desire that “we,” the church,...
