Faith • Liturgical Reflections Feasts of Thanksgiving TWI Admin | 5 min read It’s Thanksgiving here in the United States, where both TWI and a large portion of our readers are based. For those of you feasting today, Happy Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving begs the... Continue Reading
Faith • Biblical Reflections Lamenting in Wartime Randy Newman | 10 min read As I begin writing this article, reports come in like a tsunami about the horrors between Israel and Gaza. Meanwhile, American college students protest with slogans that oversimplify amazingly complex... Continue Reading
Faith • Biblical Reflections Echoes of Esther Doug Reis | 14 min read A year ago, my wife and I took our nine-month-old daughter to visit our family in the city where I was born and raised in Brazil. The expectations and concerns... Continue Reading
Faith • Theological Reflections Why I Still Believe in Denominations Rev. Dr. Irwyn Ince | 9 min read Denominations used to dominate American Protestantism. Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and other denominations used to make up the majority of churches you would drive past in your neighborhood. Now... Continue Reading
Faith • Biblical Reflections Why Do the Prophets Talk So Funny? Randy Newman | 14 min read After residing for over thirty years in Northern Virginia, my wife and I recently moved to Austin, Texas. Even though both locales technically own the label “Southern,” Texas feels a... Continue Reading
Faith • Biblical Reflections “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?” Heidi Wong | 9 min read Who lives, who dies, who tells your story? So closes the final song of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s critically acclaimed musical Hamilton.[1] One of its main themes is the idea of ‘the... Continue Reading