Guest Post by Melissa McCreery This is Part 2 of a 2 Part series. Read Part 1here How can you and I make a difference in education reform around the world, and the way we view education in our own lives? Unfortunately, like so many things in life, there isn’t a clear or easy answer. […]
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Guest Post by Ben Larson The lyrics and video below are from my new song “No Crow.” It was inspired by the book The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander. It would take too long to recap the whole book here, but here are two statistics from it that might totally change the way you think about
Tom Krattenmaker is a Portland-based writer specializing in religion and public life. His first book, Onward Christian Athletes, is on Christianity in professional sports. His latest book, The Evangelicals You Don’t Know, challenges the stereotypes of evangelicals in America and introduces readers to those who are bringing forth a non-partisan expression of evangelicalism and creating
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[Adapted in part from Chapter 15 of Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things] We were created in the image of God, to live in the direction of God. Sin mars us, defaces and twists us. We are bent – not the way we are supposed to be. Our relationships are
The Five Love Languages The five love languages are familiar to many of us from the New York Times best seller by Dr. Gary Chapman of the same name. Each love language is a way a lover expresses love to his or her beloved. They are: (1) words of affirmation, (2) quality time, (3) giving
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This past Sunday I spoke on a Theology of Creativity and at the end I prayed, “God help us dream bigger.” That reminded me of this piece adapted from Antioch’s founding documents. May we be agents of change working out God’s redemption around us. May we be a company of fools. ********************************* Christians are out
Guest Post by Emily Hill This is Part 2 of a 2 Part Series. Read Part 1, I am the Rich Oppressor. In our global economy it’s difficult to know who made what we’re consuming and what business practices are involved in the supply chain of products we buy. Very few of our purchase decisions
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Guest Post by Emily Hill This is Part 1 of a 2 Part Series “Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you… You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of
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Guest Post by Sam Adams It was a hunch that led me to propose a course titled, “Ethics of Søren Kierkegaard and Dietrich Bonhoeffer” for the new Kilns College MA in Social Justice. I knew enough about both thinkers to know that it would be interesting to read them together but what I didn’t realize
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Lisa Sharon Harper is a founding member and board member of Evangelicals4Justice and is currently Director of Mobilizing for Sojourners. She is the author of Left, Right & Christ: Evangelical Faith in Politics and Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican or Democrat. KW: In what ways is racism still an issue in our country? LSH: It’s
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