All in Culture
The message of Jesus is prophetic enough as it is. Ministers must obviously retell that message in a faithful manner. That act of proclamation is prophetic enough on its own. Given the difficulty with hearing who Jesus was and was really about, the story doesn’t need much additional help beyond that.
As Christians, we strive to be more Christlike: to see marginalized people in their pain and vulnerability. To listen to them and their stories. To give them the kind of love that Jesus showed the outcasts.
We at Yoga 4 Philly see prenatal yoga as a necessity in improving the livelihood of our mothers, our children, and our world.
We must do a better job of learning to see how God is at work. We aren’t called upon to wage war in the way of the world. It’s not all up to us. We don’t need to fight fire with fire.
For the great dis-ease among us and in us may not be the pestilence itself, but the way we react to, ignore, and weaponize the suffering of others.
I’ve wondered why open-mindedness seems such a rare quality these days. There is little room for nuance or complexity.
I wonder if some of the problem is that church leaders do not share what God says about sex.
God is doing something about this injustice, and the church has an invitation and a responsibility to join God in the mission of liberation.
We have spiritualized or prioritized the methods over the mission to the point that we think they are one and the same.
As U.S. Christianity becomes increasingly polarized, those in the dip of the canyon between the two sides are being slowly bludgeoned to death by the rocks meant for the other side.
Jeremiah says to settle in. Adapt, adjust, and find ways to make a meaningful life in a new environment.
Black love has had to exist within the context of racial trauma. From the streets of daily life to corporate, academic institutions, religious spaces, and political platforms, Black people have had to live and manage their inner rage.
Do our biggest challenges lie in relation to one another? This week let us fasten our truth-belts and remember our “enemy is not flesh and blood” (Eph. 6:12).
I have often said that I think we are on the verge of the next big evangelistic revival. Here are the five things that will help it to happen.
These stories must be shared, and as adults we hold the power and the influence with which to make space for children and adults alike to tell their stories. We must look around our congregations for where we might be missing these powerful stories of diversity.
While the wise men sought to find Jesus, I watched a man yelling at police officers at the U.S. Capitol building while holding a flag with a Christian fish and the name of Jesus.
Making the meme circuit again this Christmas is a new classic that takes on the almost-30-year-old question: Mary, did you know?
In the last year or so, I have stopped pretending I can somehow bridge the divide and have instead devoted myself to understanding it.
An initial report from an October 2020 survey by the Pruett Gerontology Center and Siburt Institute for Church Ministry.
