Photo Credit: Pete, Flickr Creative Commons Guest Post by Josh Butler We are the ones, not God, who unleash the destructive power of hell in the world. Many people think of hell as a place God creates to torture sinners. But in the biblical story, we are the authors of hell’s fury. On massive structural levels […]
Guest Post by Rachel Goble December is a month of generosity: we give to our favorite charities, we buy presents for our loved ones and volunteer at the local food bank. The SOLD Project has developed some really creative ways to expand our giving even further – to help prevent child exploitation. So this year,
Yesterday my friends Donna and Leroy Barber visited Antioch for a Q&A session on Ferguson and what it means for faith and race relations in America. They also stuck around for a conversation with students and others in the Kilns College community to discuss in greater depth the issues surrounding Ferguson and the deeper need
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Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness, by Andrew Murray, is one of my favorite books. After taking a recent spin through it again I thought I’d share a few of Murray’s quotes on humility: “Humility is the consent of the creature to let God be all, the current of itself to his working alone.” “It is
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A good friend once sent me this quote from J.I. Packer on Worship: “If worship services are so fixed that what’s being offered fits the expectations, the hopes, even the prejudices, of any one of these groups as opposed to the others, I don’t believe the worship style glorifies God.” I really like it. It’s
Guest Post by Troy Jackson One of the most provocative songs of the 1960s is Paul Simon’s “The Sound of Silence.” The haunting lyrics, which marginalize “the words of the prophets” to “subway walls and tenement halls” are poignant when it comes to white Christian engagement in the pains and struggles of African Americans. When
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Ben Lowe is on staff with the Evangelical Environmental Network and serves as the national spokesperson for Young Evangelicals for Climate Action. Ben was raised a missionary kid in Southeast Asia and now lives in community in a refugee and immigrant neighborhood outside Chicago, where he ran for US Congress in 2010. He is a
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Did you know that Halloween (All Hallows’ Eve) is the same day as Reformation Day? On that day in 1517 Martin Luther posted his famous 95 Theses (or issues) against the church of his day. That’s because, on the next day, All Saints’ Day, a large collection of relics was going to be presented for
Paul Crouse is a former Antioch intern by way of Moody Bible Institute who is a good friend and has done a lot of art for The Justice Conference and Antioch over the last few years. He just blessed me with this new art (think Aslan) which is probably the coolest piece of art anyone
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