Senator Lindsey Graham is dead at 71. He died the way he lived — in motion, at full throttle, pressing some cause or another into the next news cycle. He had just returned from Ukraine, where he met with President...
A bill requiring Tennessee schools to prominently display the national “In God We Trust” motto is headed to the governor for his signature.
Calling it a ministry might underestimate what’s happening at Chestnut Grounds. By listening and following, Nikki and Chris have become non-resident members of the trailer park. They’ve found community in an unexpected place. Perhaps it is only in unexpected places that community becomes beloved community.
A North Carolina church noted for its involvement in an immigration dispute has voted to withhold funds from the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship as long as the 1,800-church organization continues to discriminate in employment based on sexual orientation.
The Memphis megachurch announced the resignation Tuesday, saying that “the leadership team at Highpoint Church agrees that Andy’s resignation is appropriate.” It is the first time the church leadership has termed the encounter involving Savage as “abuse.”
When and where am I speaking boldly and prophetically about faith and justice, pushing the world around me to fully examine its complicity in maintaining systems of power and privilege that do repeated harm to bodies and psyches unable to protect themselves?
The truth of the matter is that we human beings are stuck in this small world that we have to share in order to survive. How can we do it successfully?
La verdad es que, como seres humanos, todas las personas del mundo estamos realmente atrapadas en este pequeño mundo que tenemos que compartir para poder sobrevivir. ¿Cómo podemos hacerlo con éxito?
Evangelical author John Piper says an “egalitarian myth” that men and women are defined by their “competencies” rather than gender role is partly to blame for the #MeToo revolt against sexual abuse by powerful men.
It is a confusing time, but one thing is crystal clear to me: if committing an adulterous affair with a porn star, if that kind of morality and that kind of character is “completely irrelevant” to a Church that has always said exactly the opposite, there is another thing that will be “completely irrelevant” to today’s culture — and that is, sadly, the Church.
When we use our imaginations, our grief and loss have the potential to become the silent, fertile seedbed for redemptive, life-giving deeds.
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Tanya Berry is a fiercely independent thinker who embraces interdependence, while also serving as discerning first editor of every novel and short story written by her prolific husband.
