By Mariah Secrest Amy Courts is one of those musicians whose songs you can put on repeat, and hours later still be enjoying the tunes like you were playing them for the first time. After doing just that, I found myself intrigued by the depth that ebbed just below the current of solid progressive rock. … Continue reading Voices in Culture: Amy Courts
By Will Shelton When Jesus says love a neighbor, it includes the members of the political party that you aren’t in. This is the same Jesus who gets pulled head, hands, and feet first into politics and elections, where some authors want him to run for president while both sides insist that he’s on their … Continue reading Love in the Issues: Crossing Political Lines
By Caitlin Woodward “And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them. I will take away their hearts of stone and give them tender hearts (hearts of flesh) instead so they will obey my laws and regulations. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.” … Continue reading God’s Heartbeat: Awakening to a life of passion
By David Wile This is a true story. It happened to me just recently when I was doing my one day Rim to Rim hike of the Grand Canyon. It was approaching evening and it was rapidly getting dark. While I always carry a headlight/flashlight just in case Im out on a trail longer than … Continue reading Answered Prayer in the Grand Canyon
By Jamie Wallace Jamie just returned from Ethiopia with the Red Letters Campaign to help Children’s Hopechest launch an orphan care ministry. He was most moved by the people in the country, including this blind beggar. This story originally appeared on the Red Letters Campaign blog, a partner site of Wrecked. Worship at St. Georges … Continue reading Treasuring Christ: Lessons from an Ethiopian Beggar
By Mariah Secrest Depending on which part of the country/world you live in, you may or may not be enjoying the quintessential trademarks that mark the arrival of the fall season. I know I have consumed my fair share of apple cider and have eagerly awaited the day that I might be able to bring … Continue reading Downhere: Ending is Beginning Review
By Sarah Fujimoto In the past few years I have come to an ongoing question as I have worked and lived amidst the poor. I have seen poverty and outward suffering in ways that have made me jump, jerk, cringe, cry, and have no response. Other questions like these seem to have lost their grip … Continue reading Two Case Studies of the Poor in California
By Matt Rose For the past year or so, I’ve become enraptured by the cause of social justice. After all, the Greek word that our Bible translators often render “righteousness” could, in truth, be just as easily rendered “justice.” That brings new meaning to the the verse “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for … Continue reading Riding the Social Justice Bandwagon
By Chad Michel I recently caught up with Derek Webb on the current Art Music Justice tour when it stopped in Evansville, IN. The tour features Sara Groves, Charlie Peacock, Derek and his wife Sandra McCracken and Brandon Heath. Tell us how the AMJ tour came about? The Art Music Justice tour was dreamt up … Continue reading Derek Webb on the Art Music Justice Tour
By Jeff Campbell Ive noticed something after being part of a church for a few years. It will best be explained by reminiscing. (Cue cheesy synth pop song and bright colors indicating the 80s. Maybe a bit of blur implying the following is a flashback which of course it is.) When I was an adolescent, … Continue reading The Thrill of the Hunt: Church, relationships, and danger