What if there are factors besides the claims of the gospel itself that are making it hard or impossible for the unbelieving world to accept?| Baptist News Global
Contending for our faith is not about expressing accurate doctrine as much as it is about living a Christ-like life. Right around the time of ... Read More The post There’s A Different Way To Fight appeared first on Missio Alliance.| Missio Alliance
Catalysts for Faith Crisis, Pt. 1 “Another Christian leader unmasked as an abuser!” the news headlines shouted earlier this week. There’s no need to go ... Read More The post Wolves in Shepherd’s Clothing appeared first on Missio Alliance.| Missio Alliance
"The work of racial healing is not optional for followers of the Way of Jesus. It is a way of being–a deeply raw, courageous, and redemptive process–that is essential to our formation into the likeness of Christ."| Missio Alliance
*Editorial Note: Miranda Zapor Cruz has written a prophetic, timely, and deeply creative piece for us this week on three concepts I have never seen ... Read More The post A (Needed) Conversation on Baptism, Borders, and Belonging appeared first on Missio Alliance.| Missio Alliance
I’m told I kicked off my tiny shoe when I was baptized. My parents made promises on my behalf and I received a Bible inscribed ... Read More The post Baptism Without Borders appeared first on Missio Alliance.| Missio Alliance
Normal life is the domain of God’s Presence, a long journey into the Great Tradition. After the grand liturgical sweep that begins with Advent and ... Read More The post My So-Called Ordinary Life appeared first on Missio Alliance.| Missio Alliance
"The natural world is a restorative place for our souls. In nature, God may not change my circumstances, but may bring about my healing."| Missio Alliance
1 Maccabees 9:24-16:24; 2 Maccabees 7; 1 Kings (3 Kingdoms) 5:4; Micah 4:4; Zechariah 8:4; Ezekiel 34:27; Hebrews 12; Romans 4:17 We have already devoted two episodes to the first nine chapters of …| Edith M. Humphrey
For seven hours on July 9, 170 residents of the carceral state became immersed in a sound stage-like environment during the Inside Knowledge journalism symposium, an event co-facilitated by Justice for Everybody (JFE) at the Yale Institute for Incarceration and Public Safety (YIIPS) and the resident-founded Carceral Studies Journalism Guild (CSJG).| Davis Vanguard
"Something about the natural world connects with us deep inside our bones and within our souls, drawing us to something greater. Nature is where people often experience God."| Missio Alliance
"Summer months teem with life. Considering that God, the Creator, invented summer, there must be theological truth here, and a spiritual invitation."| Missio Alliance
"In a world desperate for healing leaders, perhaps the most radical thing we can do is tend the wounded places within ourselves first."| Missio Alliance
"The Church can no longer afford to ignore mental health struggles, *and* the Church is beautifully poised to offer a solution to our social fragmentation: belonging to a beloved community."| Missio Alliance
"Kintsugi art is a perfect picture of the long, slow, arduous yet beautiful mending work of forgiveness and reconciliation after trauma."| Missio Alliance
"In the church, we have embraced a knowledge-based form of learning, largely opposite of the action-reflection way that Jesus showed us. Why is this so?"| Missio Alliance
"People can change. Churches and organizations can change. They may not change easily, but the hope of the gospel is that transformation is possible."| Missio Alliance
The Earth apex predators will revive will be vibrant, of habitable weather, a planet that will “pay us back” with knowledge, medicine, health, spiritual experience, aesthetic elation, and wisdom—the wisdom of understanding our place in nature’s order.| Earth Tongues
It was shortly after the winter solstice, eight years ago, when I did something that I had done nothing quite like before. Triggered by the cresting of a claustrophobia that had been growing for a decade-and-a-half, from the time I left my childhood home below the dark woods of a place named Dancing Green, it began with me shifting a sofa and an armchair tight against my living room wall and sliding an oak dining table across the carpet and into a corner.| Earth Tongues
Fearful. Frightened. Gripped by their unbelief. Two disciples got out of town. Jerusalem was unsafe, especially now that the body of Jesus was gone. Cleopas and his unnamed companion were shell shocked as described in the central story given to us in Luke 24. They set out for Emmaus. It was less than a day’s […] The post Jesus Shows Himself Alive appeared first on GGWO Church Baltimore.| GGWO Church Baltimore
In Federal litigation, the general rule is that the party responding to the Rule 45 subpoena pays the costs and fees associated with responding. Essentially, federal courts see it as a cost of doing business.| LaszloLaw