For many, the season of Advent represents a journey that culminates in the joyful celebration of Jesus’s birth, full of spiritual meaning and significance but also bolstered by the excitement of impending family gatherings, the promise of gifts given and received, and the idealistic hope of peace on earth for at least one day of the year. […]
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A Forgotten history
A new $23 million bicycle bridge is being built in our church’s neighborhood of Bronzeville in Chicago two blocks from an elementary school. […]
Grace in a time of bloodshed
Mathew Jock Moses was born in 1976 in Sudan, a country that has been at war with itself throughout his lifetime. Members of his extended family have been among the victims of all-too-common atrocities committed by every people group. […]
A Slice of Pietism
In truth, the Reformation was not so much an event as a process, both older than Luther […]
Colombian Youth “Agents of Peace” in Country
By Katie Isaza MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA (October 23, 2017) – A new five-module certificate course on “Peace and Reconciliation as Christian Commitment” graduated its first 30 participants recently, and the graduates already are influencing the lives of people who have suffered […]
Church Spotlight: It is possible
When Sandy Gannon heard a speaker from Kampala in south central Uganda at her church twelve years ago, something stirred in her heart. […]
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. […]