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
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
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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Rick McKinley serves as Lead Pastor of Imago Dei Community. He and his wife, Jeanne, and their four kids moved to Portland, Oregon in October of 2000 to plant the church. Since then, Imago Dei has been voted one of the Top 25 Most Innovative Churches in the Country by Outreach Magazine and Portland Monthly Magazine
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To believe in future rewards is to believe that the long arm of the Lord bends toward justice. – Philip Yancey
I recently sat in Tel Aviv and listened to a discussion by a Jewish woman and Palestinian man on the topic of peace and reconciliation. What made this talk different from other peace-making conversations I had heard was that both had lost a child in the violence between Arabs and Jews. One lost a son
