By Jelani Greenidge Portland is known for its pleasant summers, but this year was a scorcher. I was planning to just grit and power through, but when the weather forecast showed ten days of temps in the upper nineties, I […]
Where would Joshua be without Moses? Helen Keller without Anne Sullivan? What about Barney Fife without Andy Taylor? Mentors shape who we are. They encourage us, ground us, and guide us as we live into who we are and who […]
As an awkward, buck-toothed middle-schooler, I anxiously awaited the opportunity to help my mom bake cookies, my favorite Christmas dessert, every December. Up until that point, my “help” was almost exclusively constituted by watching Mom do all of the work […]
Reviewed by John Potter Sometimes songs that weren’t written to be sung in church are the ones that connect us to God most deeply. Here are six albums released in the last decade that you won’t find in the “Christian […]
By Elise Steel My faith journey started when I was seventeen years old. I thought God had complete control of the world—so much control that once someone became a Christian, bad things no longer happened to him or her. Life […]
By John E. Phelan Jr. From 1618 until 1648, Europe experienced one of the most brutal, bloody, and destructive wars in an already long and bloody history. It was subsequently called the Thirty Years War. It began as a conflict […]
By Hauna Ondrey In 1929 Olga Lindborg, assistant Sunday-school secretary for the Covenant, suggested that the new media of film “carries the future in its bosom” and so should be “sanctified” for use in the church, rather than condemned in […]
Sure, that’s a click-baity title, but it got you to read, right? (Never mind that there’s no clicking in print media, you knew what I meant.) Forgive the crass opening, but that’s an attitude I’ve seen from church leaders sometimes. Whatever […]
