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We’re prone to judgment, but mercy needs to ‘speak the first word’

This perhaps is the most confounding thing about God: why God chooses mercy over judgment. We want God to punish the bad – now – and put the world to rights. We want a clear signal that God is at least as moral as we are. Yet, God keeps giving people time to change, so that mercy may triumph.

A tattoo that says, ‘Your story is not over’

The struggle is to welcome life as it is now, which is certainly different than you thought it would be or should be. The struggle is to see injury and illness and despair as a semicolon and not a period.

Transitions for the week of 9-7-18

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Briana Ayala, to Centerpoint Community Church, Salem, N.H., as worship leader. Anyra Cano, to Texas Baptist Women…

New Book Details Harms of Evangelical ‘Purity’ Movement and the Obstacle to Change

When Linda Kay Klein was a teenager growing up in the Midwest, she dreamed of being cast as a virtuous woman or pious martyr in church plays.

Woman Accusing Mormon Leader Of Rape Speaks Out Against Him At Church Service

A woman who claims a former Mormon leader raped her in the 1980s staged a protest from the pulpit of the accused man’s Arizona church on Sunday.

Anne Graham Lotz: My Breast Cancer Is ‘Fuel for the Fire’

The popular evangelist and author received the news “three years to the day … at the very same time of day” as her husband Danny Lotz’s death by drowning in 2015.

‘Originalism’ at Kavanaugh hearings: echoes of SBC ‘inerrancy’ debate

The analogy between “inerrancy” as the foundation of biblical authority and judicial “originalism” as a basis for constitutional jurisprudence is noteworthy. Of more import is the sheer cynicism lying behind proponents of both inerrancy and originalism.