By Dirk Hamp During June of 2008, we returned to Uganda with a team of 45 people, many of them youth, to Kaihura in Western Uganda to work in our daughters home village. We lived in the village, learned about the childrens needs, carried the water with them, ate with them and shared their rooms. … Continue reading Days of Significance: Embrace Uganda
By Jamie Finch And still I am a child of something more. Formed and fashioned by and for a storm of wild grace Unimagined and uncalled for Scandalously unwarranted and undeserved For truly I am not my own. This Love has called me out Has led me away and swept me up Oh, to be … Continue reading A Child of Something More
By Tom Schiavon Anyone in the room could have seen the eyebrows rise as the patrons saw her crumpled image appear on the other side of the glass door. In a city like New York, she shouldn’t have stood out. But here, in the pristine financial district of Manhattan, she looked a little out of … Continue reading Hot Coffee, Cold City: The frail woman in Manhattan
By Ben Girdler Do you ever feel like Christianity today may not be all it was intended to be? That we have somehow messed up our part of the relationship? In light of these thoughts, I recently sat down with author Jonathan Almanzar to discuss his new book, An Open Apology, co-authored by Aaron Havens. … Continue reading An Open Apology: A Journey from Christianity to Christ
By Mariah Secrest A bands name says a lot, doesnt it? Much of a bands coolness factor owes itself to just the right moniker, one that encapsulates the deep artistic intentions and straddles that slim tightrope of making sense on the one hand and meeting a certain quotient of mystery on the other hand. The … Continue reading Voices in Culture: Raining & OK
By Will Shelton After much pressure, I finally saw the film Facing The Giants. If you haven’t seen or heard of this movie, Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, GA created this thing in 2006, one of those “Christian movies” that actually made its way to theaters. Then it made its way to DVDs and youth … Continue reading The God We Need