Editor's Note: This article first appeared in Religion News Service on April 29, 2024.
(RNS) — It is easy to despair over the Holy Land. For almost 80 years it has been a festering sore, and today, after d...
It was 2019. At work, I was newly-appointed to my role and trying to lead a national communications department of a Christian missionary organisation through significant change. At home, I'd needed to move back...
October 20, 2023, a network of Palestinian Christian institutions located throughout Israel/Palestine published “An Open Letter from Palestinian Christians to Western Church Leaders and Theologians.”—a clarion ...
Many of us have heard about the recent movement in the Democratic presidential primary to encourage voters across the country to vote uncommitted. There are several news articles discussing what this movement r...
Being a Sister is a form of radical discipleship of Jesus Christ, I figure. It is how I can live in a committed intentional community long-term with like-minded prayerful, Gospel-centered women; women who also ...
Have you had your awe and wonder sighting for today? If not it’s time to go out and take notice. Our daily experience of life, God and God’s world are meant to inspire us with awe and wonder. Our failure to not...
Every morning, I wake up and read the obituaries. That may seem like an odd way to greet the day, but I am a pastor who has a deep calling to walk with those who are mourning. So, I read the obituaries to see w...
Adapted from Chapter 4, “Isolated and Othered”
“Pick a color,” she said. “Write down your color.” I was at a writers’ workshop in Minnesota, and this was our prompt. I wrote down “pink.” No one else will pick ...
Shots fired in the hallway.
People screaming.
One class can’t lock their door, so they block the entrance with furniture. The door gets kicked in.
Eventually, the shooter is stopped.
Everyone is ...
Editor's Note: This piece was previously published on the FORUSA.org website and is reprinted here with permission.
According to legend, the organization I lead, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, was fou...