By Gabi Dickinson Written in Uganda: These are the days when my “no” has been given away. Every pattern in my veins is “yes” and “amen.” Somewhere beneath copper-colored strands of His earth, lies a past I used to define myself by. As I cast my open-hands to the breeze, I felt a stronger Tenderness … Continue reading I Carry You in Me and the Dust on My Feet
By Sarah Fujimoto Yesterday I found out that a student at my school committed suicide. He jumped off the 8th story of his apartment complex to his death. The reports flippantly state his suffering with severe depression, and the stark and alarming statements of his body being covered by a white sheet at the bottom … Continue reading The Power of One: One Love, One Person, One Moment
By Tim Chermak “All this has happened before, and it will all happen again. But this time it happened in London. It happened on a quiet street in Bloomsbury. That corner house over there is the home of the Darling family. And Peter Pan chose this particular house because there were people here who believed … Continue reading Never Growing Up: Spiritual Lessons Learned from Peter Pan
By Tim Chermak For the ecclesiastically challenged out there, this guide’s for you. If you’re fed up with the color of the carpet, boring sermons, generic donuts, or the terrible lead guitar player at your current church, maybe it’s time to consider looking for another house of worship. Today’s church market is more competitive than … Continue reading Church Shopping 101: A Guide for Consumer Christians
By George Elerick Ben and Jerry’s is one of the biggest ice cream conglomerates in the world. Most know Ben and Jerry’s for their plethora of flavors and creative interactive buffet of items to add to their ice cream. It’s like Disneyland for the taste buds. This corner shop enterprise is a great metaphor for … Continue reading Hope for the Church in a Post-Postmodern World
By Adam McLane It started with a touch. While exploring a neighborhood, the pastor of a local church lead me into the yard of a very nice home. Rather, what was once a very nice home. The concrete home had crumbled during the quake. The outside walls fell first, then the second story partially collapses … Continue reading Discovering Faith Through Pain in Haiti
By Renee Johnson For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery. -Mark 7: 21 I looked up the word sex in the New International Version of the Bible, and it appears at least fifty-six times. Most of the references are found in Leviticus about abstaining from weird sexual … Continue reading Lets Talk About Sex
By Liz Bureman I have officially experienced the greatest church service of my entire life. And it happened in a men’s prison in Soroti, Uganda. On Sunday, after church, we climbed on a batch of bodas and rode off to the outskirts of town. A brief downhill ride later, we coasted into the Soroti government … Continue reading Ninety Minutes in a Ugandan Prison
By Ashley Huizenga Ashley Huizenga writes from Byron Bay, Australia, where she and a group of friends creatively shared the redemptive message of Jesus through cardboard signs: Byron Bay has been educational in finding new ways to approach ministry. The people here are mostly comprised of backpackers who come to get drunk. It’s a surfing … Continue reading Creative Gospel-Sharing: Eternal Hope on a Cardboard Sign
By Harold Vance Being in Christ, My perception is resurrected, Raised from the death of dim, dreary cynicism. I look at the world through new eyes. Where once I saw despair And sunk to the depths, Losing my humanity, Trading it in, Now I see hope Upon hope Upon hope … Continue reading In Christ: A Poem