I love music. And even though I’m sometimes sick of it by the end of December, I really love Christmas music – especially the old Christmas hymns. The popular music of my life changes so quickly, but Christmas hymns remain the same, a musical root that calls me to deep soil, nourishment for my soul....
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wisely observed that the most segregated parts of the American week were Sunday Mornings. Despite his exhortations to bring different races together, this is largely still true today, and the effects are tragic.
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“It was not man who implanted in himself what is infinite and the love of what is immortal: those lofty instincts are not the offspring of his capricious will; their steadfast foundation is fixed in human nature, and they exist in spite of his efforts.” Alexis de Tocqueville Eternity has long been a subject beyond...
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I participated in my very first “Locked In Solidarity” (LIS) on Thursday, February 11, 2016 (see #LIS16). LIS is a national prayer vigil for the mass incarcerated. Nearly forty people met in a small downtown Christ Community Church (Kansas City, MO) to lament our broken criminal justice system and to pray for a powerful move...
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In the wake of a Facebook post that offended many Asian American believers, Jody Wiley Fernando asks whether American majority culture evangelicals can gain not more finely tuned cultural competencies, but rather adopt a posture of cultural humility.
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