When Sandy Gannon heard a speaker from Kampala in south central Uganda at her church twelve years ago, something stirred in her heart. […]
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Finding Ourselves
Recently I celebrated my twentieth anniversary of living in the United States, a date I anticipated with significant feelings. […]
Big Q: When Did You First Feel Like an Adult?
We asked readers when they first felt like an adult. Check out these charming, sincere, humorous, and genuine milestones of adulthood. […]
Redwood Pastor: ‘My Morning Begins with Mourning’
They come through the door with blankets wrapped around themselves shaking and exhausted […]
Reimagine That – Church Planting: A Shot at Redemption
To see David Washington standing today in front of his former dope house in Chicago’s Roseland neighborhood, it is difficult to imagine the gangs and violence of his teen years. […]
Reimagine That – Church Planting: Accidental Church Planter
Kimberly Wright is senior pastor of the Church of the Resurrection, in East Harlem, also known as “El Barrio” or Spanish Harlem, where she has been serving in ministry for twenty-seven years. […]
Population 1,500
A year and a half ago I quit my corporate job in Chicago and moved back home to my parents’ farm in rural, southwestern Minnesota. […]
New Orleans Pastor Experienced Katrina, Encourages Houstonians
By Page Brooks I have been sitting at my home office desk all day seeing pictures on Facebook of the Houston devastation. About every five minutes my phone buzzes with texts from the National Guard chaplains that I supervise. We […]
Voices: The Radical Affirmationist
I stared at my Bible in desperation for several seconds, focused on the words of the passage […]
A Call to Prayer From Supt. Mark Stromberg
We have been shocked and saddened by the recent explosion and loss of life […]
When Going to Church Gets Hard
A few years ago I sat down with our pastor for coffee. We’d been going to the church off and on for a few years and were finally ready to join and jump fully into the congregational life. […]
Your Joy Is Sorrow Unmasked
It’s been more than a decade since I first discovered The Prophet written by Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran and published in 1923. […]