“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.”
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It is not unusual for me to hear someone say, “I’m struggling with finding time to be alone with God in prayer.”
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In these past 25 years, there is a generation of women who tell stories of living into their Spirit-led calling.
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It’s a turbulent time to be an evangelical in America, leading some believing scholars who identify with historic evangelical beliefs to suggest that it is time to drop the term.
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Anger is a normal and at times necessary emotion; rage is a deadly sin.
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Now seeing the children and grandchildren of these first immigrants sitting in the pews in front of me, I saw them again—my father, my mother, the fathers and mothers of many who were sitting there.
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Over my 25 years in ministry, I’ve become increasingly concerned about narcissism in the church. About five years ago, I decided it was time for a serious conversation.
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If Paul affirms unmarried life, why doesn’t the modern church?
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We can hardly say this season’s greeting without first cracking a smile and knowing in our hearts that we are sharing in a joy that is beyond us and yet inside of us.
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Until I began navigating the challenges of communication with my son, I never thought of the ability to be heard as a privilege, a luxury available to some but not others.
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CRC members along a spectrum of opinions share their beliefs.
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We live in a time when a healthy financial life is increasingly difficult, particularly for young people.
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An interview with Rudy Carrasco, contributor to the new book Uncommon Ground.
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We believe there are biblical principles that point us toward a hopeful vision of Christian civic engagement.
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Bible scholars have pointed out that Matthew, the gospel writer, was drawing parallels between the Old Testament prophet Moses and Jesus.
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Church shopping became church hopping, then church stopping.
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The past few months of COVID-19, race relations, and vivid examples of police brutality further highlight the divisions that exist between us. How do we show Christian love?
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We gulp this brew down like poison. Someone needs to be blamed if we’re to make sense of this brokenness. Right?
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Perhaps this discussion is unfamiliar, but this pattern is well-worn and dangerous. If we are not tethered to the history of controversy, we start to long for a world that never existed.
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This year, 2020, is the first year in our history where over 50% of our candidates are “minority” by previous definitions. The minority has become the majority.
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What do we do with that loss? You can’t really have a funeral for someone who is still living. Yet a loss like this is in fact a death in the family.
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Silence in the face of the Holocaust’s horrors is appropriate. However, silence in the face of the anti-Semitism that triggered that genocide is inexcusable and persistent.
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We cannot lump all LGBTQ+ people into one category—just like we cannot lump all straight people into one category.
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Jesus’ way demanded guaranteeing the care of people rendered vulnerable by the society of the day. It demanded setting aside discrimination and offering a wholehearted welcome to diverse people.