We are fresh off particularly heated mid-term elections in the United States. Like a national-scale thanksgiving meal turned sour, we are poised to yell across the table at one another—partisan turkey leg in hand, waved around like a club.
In this antagonistic time, we are looking for a way to engage without destroying one another. In our disagreements, many Christians are calling for “civil discourse.”
But while the desire for a healthier vision for dialogue is right and good, I propose that “civil discourse” is not a framework with enough imaginative power to dislodge us from violent rhetoric, to challenge the powers and principalities at work, and to make space for sharing in the humanity of others.
For the baptized,…
When you are black and a woman in America, the struggle to know and love yourself and your community is real. From the time we enter this world as people created with promise and purpose from our Creator God, we…
Written by Emily Hallock, a blogger and mother of three who lives at Beech Grove, a Bruderhof in Kent, England. Originally published by our partners at Plough Quarterly, a magazine of stories, ideas, and culture to inspire faith and action.…
Very few people are actually paid to talk about issues related to gender reconciliation and women’s roles in the church. For most of us, it’s something we have to do in our spare time.
Around once a week, I get…
Pastor Rich Villodas hit the nail on the head when he wrote:
In our minds holiness is usually about what we abstain from.
But Jesus saw holiness as what you give yourself to. Namely, mercy, love & hospitality.
In the…
With school, holidays and the changing weather, Fall is full of great opportunities to for your church to have a meaningful presence in your neighborhood.
Unfortunately, churches don’t always have a plan for how to take advantage of these opportunities.…
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Is this even a question Christians should be asking? Does it reek of privilege and entitlement? Fitch and Moore discuss if/how Christians should vote in the upcoming election. Fitch does an average Hauerwas impression and examines how our culture means we now “vote for commercials, not people.”
Written by Emily Hallock, a blogger and mother of three who lives at Beech Grove, a Bruderhof in Kent, England. Originally published by our partners at Plough Quarterly, a magazine of stories, ideas, and culture to inspire faith and action.…
Written by Rev. Levi Jones, Associate Director of the newly revised Doctor of Ministry Program at Nazarene Theological Seminary. He is currently completing a Doctor of Ministry in Preaching. His ministry in the local church included serving as a youth…
