Is our faith something we are or something we practice? Last week, one of the first questions I was asked at the Chaplaincy Institute for the Arts and Interfaith Ministries while attending a training in the art of spiritual direction was: “What…
Pockets of friendship: Three lessons for interfaith engagement
Editor’s note: This blog first appeared on the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s blog site. It is published by APBnews with the permission of the author. By the time I took my first post-seminary post as a pastor, I wanted interfaith dialogue…
Being missional or doing missional?
It was a different kind of mission trip. We hosted a group of 25 college students and their leaders for a week here in Houston, Texas. No houses were built. No vacation Bible schools took place. No sports camps with…