The mass closures of gathering spaces and schools, coupled with suspensions of many businesses and public services, are necessary measures to manage the COVID-19 pandemic; but they have greatly impacted our most vulnerable neighbors and created a crippling amount of… Read More ›
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How Some of the Early Church Fathers’ Views on Women Affect Us Today
Introduction In the Protestant circles I’ve been a part of for the last two decades (Evangelical Presbyterian, Presbyterian Church of America, non-denominational evangelical, Anglican Church of North America, Evangelical Free Church of America, and presently, an independent Bible Church), whenever… Read More ›
How the Life, Suffering, and Death of John the Baptist Embody the Spirit of Advent
What is Advent? For the average evangelical Christian in America, the word “Advent” probably evokes the images and sounds of Christmas – a manger scene, shepherds, angels, the star of Bethlehem, wise men from the East, “Silent Night.” But if… Read More ›
How the Latest Immigration Policy Changes Are Impacting Families with Medically Fragile Children
I just received an urgent update from my friend and former ministry partner, Tim Isaacson, who’s the director of the Atlanta chapter of Immigrant Hope. He is asking people to pray and to advocate for the families he is working… Read More ›
My Weekend at the San Diego/Tijuana Border
This is a guest post by Cindy M. Wu, Program Manager at Houston Welcomes Refugees, author of A Better Country: Embracing the Refugees in Our Midst, and co-author of Our Global Families: Christians Embracing Common Identity. (And also my sister-in-law)… Read More ›
Should There Be a Separation Between Church and Stage?
The stage has become such an accepted structure in churches that we forget it originated in the world of theater. (It certainly didn’t originate from the early believers, who met in various places like temple courts [Acts 2:46], private homes… Read More ›
Glitches in Dialogues About Race
Over the last five days, I played catch-up on the myriad of responses to both Ekemini Uwan’s on-stage interview at the Sparrow Conference on March 30th in Dallas, Texas and the subsequent actions of the conference organizers, including this 5-sentence… Read More ›
Recovering Place
In November 2018, D.C.-based pastor Duke Kwon wrote a post that analyzed the spiritual and moral dynamics at play in the breakdown of civil dialogue in the public square. Using the parable of the Pharisee and Tax Collector (Luke 18:9-14), he illustrated… Read More ›
One Tangible Way to Ease the Migrant Crisis
My friend Sarah Quezada, author of Love Undocumented: Risking Trust in a Fearful World, has written a short, helpful guide containing 15 ideas for supporting immigrants and addressing the migrant crisis. You can download it for free here. But I’d like to highlight what she and… Read More ›
U.S. History and the Current Border Crisis
I’m going to expand this into a long-form essay over the next few weeks, but this 14-tweet collection is a sort of preview.
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