The New Journalism movement of the 1960s and ’70s – in which writers like Joan Didion and Truman Capote blended subjective views with fictional techniques – “had a secularism problem,” argue Costica Bradatan and Ed Simon in the introduction of “The God Beat: What Journalism Says About Faith…
Uniform Lesson for August 8, 2021 Scripture passage and lesson focus: Hebrews 11:1-8, 13-16 I cannot read this passage without remembering and giving thanks for the life and witness of George Hall, an elder in a congregation I served in Belmont, North Carolina. George carried a folded-up scrap of…
Sacre Coeur Basilica, Paris, France, via Stephanie Leblanc/Unsplash If you read through the early Christian texts known as the Gnostic Gospels, you’ll find there are two primary themes that appear again and again. The first is the idea that the kingdom of God is not found in heaven…
PART 5 YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN. NOW WHAT? In this chapter, we are going to look at another roadblock, which I think for many believers acts upon them in a habitual manner; for example, something like the reoccurring of the same day events in the movie “Groundhog Day.”…
Canadian pop icon Shawn Mendes recently shared his heart and faith journey during a podcast in which he talks about the power of a Maverick City Music song. Mendes was on the podcast called Man Enough when he shared his experience after becoming famous from hit single after hit…
The radical thing about God’s grace is that it is a gift. Grace is an unearned, undeserved, free gift. Out of the great love God has for us we are forgiven of our sin, and we are free from the worries of salvation for the sake of loving…
Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?” He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” And Jesus said to him, “You go, and do likewise.”ESV Luke 10:36-37 A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho…
Shortly after Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection, residents of an ancient civilization in the Americas were talking to one another when they “heard a voice as if it came out of heaven” and “look[ed] … from whence the sound came.”“Behold my Beloved Son, in whom I am well…
19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B First Reading: 1 Kgs 19:4-8 Second Reading: Eph 4:30 – 5:2 Gospel Reading: Jn 6:41-51 In this Sunday’s Collect, we ask “God, whom, taught by the Holy Spirit, we dare to call our Father” to perfect in us “the spirit of…
In an emotional congressional hearing Tuesday morning, witnesses of the Jan. 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill used multiple words to describe those who attacked them: One was “terrorists;” another was “Christians.” “It was clear the terrorists perceived themselves to be Christians,” Metropolitan police officer Daniel Hodges stated in…
