Health Care — Then and Now
BY: LINDA BRENDLE -- I don’t know if we had health insurance when I was a child. When I had a sore throat...
My Journey Through a 3 year Marriage and Divorce at 29
BY: RACHEL GOBLE -- When I was 26 I married the love of my life. But three years later I found myself divorced...
7 Tips for Finding Your Vocation
BY: BRAD JERSAK -- When I say 'career, ' I mean the idea of a job that you work at to make money, get promotions...
A Pastor's Struggle With Sex and Porn Addiction
BY: MICHAEL JOHN CUSICK -- On a cold winter night in 1994, in the grip of a decades-long addiction to porn and...
Why Abortion Should Not Be Politically Decisive for Christians
BY: CRAIG M. WATTS -- I recall years ago on the Sunday before a national election a surprise awaited members of...
Who am I to Think that I Could Stand in God's Way?
I’ve had a scenario playing in my head over the past few days. It hasn’t happened but I’m wondering how I would respond if it did.
In it, a couple o...
The Role of Satire, Snark and Sarcasm in Building Community
Photo by ganesha.isis on FlickrShort answer: there is none.
I recently stumbled upon a Les Miserables inspired video parody in support of a Barack O...
From the Heart…Angel Unaware
I was heading into the bathroom at my niece’s volleyball game yesterday when a kind-eyed white-haired gentleman stopped me. “Would you check on my gr...
The Church’s Doomed Pursuit of the Elusive Young Adult
It seems that everywhere you look today, “the church, ” especially within historic traditions, is talking about reaching that ever-elusive young adu...
Myopically Mothering My Own as Mission?
Within evangelical culture, many mothers of young children have received a blanket assurance that “motherhood is mission.”
Maybe when a mother was ...