By Matt Snyder Being long-legged and then cramped in a bus for 14 hours is anything but fun. I know that we have to make sacrifices for the Kingdom and all, but after a year of sacrificing ample leg room I can only get more frustrated when these opportunities present themselves. Thing is, I had … Continue reading Sharing the Blessing
By Megan Twietmeyer I took a communications/media course once when I was in college. I went to a private Christian college, so the course dealt with Christians and how they should interact with media and pop culture. My professor said there were different levels of interaction with culture. I think there were five levels. Ignoring/avoiding, … Continue reading Light and Dark in Pop Culture: Insight from the unlikeliest of places
By Jeff Goins, Editor Bill Dahl started a site called The Porpoise-Diving Life and has authored a book by the same title, both of which have received a lot of attention on the web, and we wanted to pick his brain about it a little bit. Whats the deal with porpoise-diving? Whered you get the … Continue reading Porpoise-Diving Life: Interview with Bill Dahl
By Mariah Secrest So brew the coffee strong, love Where bitter joins the sweet Where love and longing both collide And peace and clamor meet These words floated through my mind in the form of a song this morning as the sun slipped over the mountains. Today is the memorial service for the stillborn baby … Continue reading Thoughts On A Sad Day
By Dann Niegocki Somewhere along the path of growing up I fell, like so many others, into that wonderful land known as “sin management.” You probably know of the place, or at least have heard of it. I joined throngs of people trying to not do “those things,” which tended to be a list of … Continue reading A Sinless Life
By Naomi Silseth The ocean seems a perfect place for thinking. Something about the open endlessness and the never-changing, yet ever-changing waves lulls one into a meditative state of mind. This trip to the beach was no exception. Over the course of the first day, I had thought about a succession of subjects: from the … Continue reading God’s Promises and Messages In the Sand
By Zach Kincaid WRECKED: You bring to light this idea of Juergensmeyer’s about “email ethnicities.” How do we act in a world that is quickly becoming borderless? Do we fight for no side? Is everything leveled and no claims of justice able to be made… even if tainted? VR: It is a myth that the … Continue reading Subverting Global Myths (Pt. 2)
By Andrew Greenhalgh Author Jim Palmer‘s life has been anything but boring. The product of a seriously dysfunctional childhood, he overcame those challenges, finding Christ and getting into ministry through high school. That path led him higher and higher up the proverbial ladder until he found himself the pastor of a mega church and in … Continue reading Book Review: Divine Nobodies by Jim Palmer
By Onleilove Alston In July I attended the DC campaign kick-off for the Justice at Smithfield Campaign. Smithfield Foods is the largest pork processor and producer in the world, the fourth largest turkey processor and fifth largest beef processor in the U.S. In the early 1990s Smithfield opened its Tar Heel, North Carolina plant, with … Continue reading Bless The Hands That Prepared This Food
By Jeff Goins, Editor WRECKED: Lisa, you and your husband Will wrote a book awhile back called Justice in the Burbs. In it, you basically tell your tale of transformation from consumerist suburbanites to more justice-oriented gardeners living in the mountains of West Virginia, right? You live in Appalachia , where you’re forced to see … Continue reading Voices in Culture: Interview with Author Lisa Samson