Some evangelicals feel they have nothing to lose but something to possibly gain with a Trump presidency. Read more
Some evangelicals feel they have nothing to lose but something to possibly gain with a Trump presidency. Read more
While consciously scorning health-and-wealth theology, I have unwittingly imbibed some of its tenets. This includes a presumption that so long as I obey God and live a decent life, I will be protected from harm. Read more
By Shawn Thornton My childhood was in some ways the typical experience of a boy growing up in the 1970s, but it was far from normal. My mother suffered the lasting effects from a car accident she was in when she was fourteen. After emerging from a three-month- long coma, Mom was left with deep physical, emotional, and mental challenges. Those challenges showed up in our little house on Victory Road in Mishawaka, Indiana, in some horrific ways. At nearly fifty years of age,... Read more
by Jim Denison Ramadan is a time for ISIS to hate. It’s a time for us to love. Last month, ISIS spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani called for Ramadan to become a “month of hurt” in the U.S. and Europe. In Orlando we witnessed the first response to his call to terrorism. It is not likely to be the last. According to CNN, U.S. law enforcement agencies have 1,000 active investigations into U.S. homegrown jihadists, eighty percent of which involve ISIS... Read more
by Gary Edmonds How does a little girl who grows up in a place where no one believes girls should go to school end up becoming a doctor and help transform her hometown? Mayra Mamani was 7-years-old when her carpenter father, mother and five siblings moved to a rural area of Bolivia called Horno Ck’asa during hard times. Mayra remembers arriving at a desolate place with no clean water, electricity or sewage services. “The neighborhood was dirty, there were... Read more
by Gary Edmonds Sitting in the workshop listening to the instructor talk about positive parenting, Nancy began to cry. She was there to learn the basics of violence prevention, but the abuse she endured at the hands of her parents while growing up flooded in. She was compelled to share a troubling story with the group: not long ago, she had returned to her childhood town and she had beaten up her father to repay him for horrific years of... Read more
by Gary Edmonds Increasing food security, water security, and a place to keep a child warm and safe — we see these as the church mission model for the 21st Century. Some of the most successful and compassionate work the U.S. public and private sectors undertake – often together — is that which secures mothers and fathers with the ability to care for their children into the future. Anyone who is a parent knows, there is nothing more important than... Read more
by Gary Edmonds In Matthew 28:19, Jesus left his followers with this command: ”Go and make disciples of all nations.” The gospel spread quickly and widely, and this remained the model for Christian missions for millennia. Fast forward to today. Sending out a few to train others is still a solid strategy in a world where 1.6 billion people barely survive on less than $1.25 per day. Extreme poverty is brutal—it robs children of the ability to grow and to... Read more
A bold life cannot be meaningfully measured by what one has and does, but by what one does with the little one has. Read more
by Michael Anthony Years ago, I took a life-changing pilgrimage to Enfield, Connecticut, a spiritual “nuclear bomb” within America’s “Great Awakening” (1730-1755). There, a thirty-eight year old Jonathan Edwards delivered the sermon heard ‘round the world, “Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God.” Listeners clung to their pews, fearful that the ground would open up and welcome them to a fiery home of eternity torment should they not repent. Today, only a large stone stands on the site,... Read more
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