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Culture • Current Conversations

Tragedy, Tipping Points, and Trust

Rev. Dr. Irwyn Ince | 9 min read

September 1, 1989 September 1, 1989 in Brooklyn, NY – a tragedy that I trusted was a tipping point. It was the day before my 21st birthday, and I was mad as hell. The movie of the year for me was Do The Right Thing, by Spike Lee. The song regularly playing on my Walkman...

Faith • Theological Reflections

Does God Judge Nation-States Today?

Rev. Dr. Bill Fullilove | 13 min read

As the US has now tragically ascended to the place of having the most reported COVID-19 deaths in the world — over 71,000 as of this writing, more Americans than died in the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq combined, as well as in the attacks on 9/11 — the predictable spate of articles has...

Faith • Biblical Reflections

The With-ness of God

Eniitan Coker | 3 min read

Around 6th grade, my family bubble wrapped and boxed everything we owned of great value and absolute necessity. We were making our way across the Red Sea. The Moses in my mother shared the revelation of the promised land just blocks away. Where bikes left unattended were not in danger of being taken and sirens...

Culture • Current Conversations

Even Proximate Justice Is Hard to Find

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

Proximate justice, one more time. I walked into a familiar classroom this morning, one where I spent many hours over many years. And as I prepared to begin, I saw an essay I had written some years ago, “Making Peace with Proximate Justice” on the desks in the room filled with students from all over...

Faith

Missio on Genesis 1: How Reading is Fundamental to Fulfilling the Cultural Mandate Today

Cameron Barham | 5 min read

To dwell in theory and abstraction serves as one of Christianity’s most tempting and crippling sins. Thinking is easy; working is hard. As the insightful Don Chaffer sings, we are far too often “long on diagnosis and short on cure.” To move from discussing abstract Biblical concepts to applying them in our own lives and...

Faith • Biblical Reflections

Missio on Justice (Acts 16:16-40): Getting to the Root

Baylee Eby | 3 min read

Italian philosopher and writer Niccolò Machiavelli once stated, “The reason there will be no change is because the people who stand to lose from change have all the power, and the people that stand to gain from change have none of the power.” Exploitation of the poor has been a part of our world since...

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