President Obama’s “Pastor-in-Chief” (TIME Magazine) and longtime spiritual advisor, Joshua DuBois led the White House faith-based initiative during Obama’s first term, and served with the President for years before that. Joshua writes a regular religion column for The Daily Beast and has authored several cover stories for Newsweek magazine. Joshua graduated from Boston University and
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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. -Benjamin Franklin
Association for a More Just Society (AJS) is a Christian organization that, as a result of its fearless efforts to stand up for victims of violence, labor- and land-rights abuses, and government corruption in Honduras, is increasingly being recognized – both by Christian groups and secular agencies such as Transparency International and the United Nations—as
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One of the things that drew me most to C.S. Lewis when I was an early Christian was Lewis’ writing on and amplification of “joy.” On the 50th anniversary of his death of C.S. Lewis, I thought I would re-post some thoughts and a video on his concept of joy. Joy, for Lewis, was a particularly
Guest Post by Jeff Caliguire I could tell she felt uncomfortable. The only woman in a leader’s gathering of sixteen other men. “There were other women invited,” I told her. “One just texted me that she had something come up and needed to cancel.” She smiled awkwardly, and without her needing to say it, I
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I’ve been thinking through something this past week that I’ll probably put into a full message. The main idea basically goes like this: there are people who call themselves Christians who are on an inevitable path to walk away from the church and God. I call these people Terminal Christians. In the past, when America was a
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Photo Credit: Beans on Broad Guest Post by Tabitha Sikich Book Review of A Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderot We live in a world full of words. It seems just about everyone is talking. About everything. And all this talk centers upon what people know, or think that they know — ideas,
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[Partially adapted from Chapter 8 in Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things] One of the most eye-opening moments in my life happened in an unlikely place: sharing time at my daughter’s school. It seemed innocent enough, but the experience there would shake me to the core. I had just picked
As we continue the Give Thanks series at Antioch I recently spoke on Philippians 2 and the way of humility and humiliation in the Christian life. Often when we think of God’s will for our lives, we think it comes with glory, honor and pleasure. We think we’ll get what we want because God gives
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Guest Post by Melissa McCreery Bullying has come to be an all-to-common word in our vocabulary. Lately, it seems that it’s pervaded every facet of society. Bullying in K-12 schools (30 percent of kids ages 12-18 say they’re bullied at school), bullying at the collegiate level (a study by Leah Hollis found that bullying exists
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