Guest Post by John Sowers I recently sat with forty inner-city children around a Christmas Tree. The children are part of a gang-prevention mentoring program. I sat among friends like Jacob and Jill and Tanner and Bruce and Jed and Marcus, who came to The Mentoring Project and said they wanted to help. Heroes like Wayland and […]
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Shane Claiborne on Red Letter Christians I’ve been doing interviews on the blog for the last few years. Interviews are an amazing way to spotlight people, ideas and often the books that intrigue me. The interview that garnered the most positive response, by far, is the conversation below with Shane Claiborne. Shane is one of
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Guest Post by Andrea Lucado I’m in a women’s class at my church on Thursday mornings. We’re studying the book Waking Up Grey, which is all about waking up your creativity. As I sat in class last week, I looked around and noticed several women crying. They were just sitting there, letting tears run down hardly
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The desert is metaphor throughout Scripture for scarcity, real or imagined. Deserts can be spiritual, emotional, financial, etc. – places where our perceived lack of abundance produces anxiety and brings out the worst in us. It’s the place where all is stripped away and we are reduced to the basic elements of trust. As much as
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UPS just delivered 100 first run copies of #TheGrandParadox to our doorstep (2 weeks earlier than expected!) About a dozen friends helped make this two-year project a reality. It wouldn’t be near as good without their help and encouragement. Thank you Ben Larson, Rick Gerhardt, Tabitha Sikich and Emily Hill. Also blessed by Don Jacobson
Tyler Braun is a writer, worship leader, and pastor from Oregon where he lives with his wife Rose and son Judah. Tyler writes about Millennials, God, faith, church, and theology and has been featured in various publications, such as Relevant Magazine and Christianity Today. He is the author of Why Holiness Matters: We’ve Lost our
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Guest Post by Leroy Barber Yesterday I talked to friend who is a white male middle-aged leader in the non-profit world and he confessed that in his inner circles there is no one who is black, and for that matter, no one of color. In his lament he was truly confessing and wanting to repent.
Guest Post by Andrea Lucado Brene Brown, much like Taylor Swift, really speaks to my soul. I talk about her here a lot, and a friend recently introduced me to a fabulous talk Brown gave at a conference for creatives. You can watch it here. In it, she uses the metaphor of a coliseum-type arena as
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Photo: Walter Brueggemann interviewed by Don Golden at The Justice Conference 2012 Blessed and humbled to receive the below review on The Grand Paradox from someone I respect and whose opinion I value greatly. Question: What do Soren Kierkegaard, C. S. Lewis, Abraham Heschel, Dwight Moody, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Evelyn Underhill and John Paul
Adoration of the Shepherds by Rembrandt Guest Post by Bishop Philip Wright “From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. So if anyone is in Christ, there is a
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