“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” — Mahatma Gandhi College and university students throughout the country have organized boycotts and petition drives to terminate their schools’ relationship with the national fast food chain Chick-fil-A
Read the rest of the Via Creativa: What Now? series Jubilee! Circle, Columbia, S.C. Readings: He is unclean… (Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46) You can make me clean. (Mark 1:40-45) Our first song comes from an Australian band that was formed in 1975. During their career, the
The folks at DefendChristians.Org asked their readers to list their top 10 “anti-Christian acts of 2011”. The list is filled with the usual right wing “religious liberty” outrages including the shutting down of Bible studies and people being fired from their jobs for supporting “traditional
Day by day Day by day Oh Dear Lord Three things I pray: To see thee more clearly Love thee more dearly Follow thee more nearly Day by day – -from the musical “Godspell” Although the above is the product of a 1971 off-Broadway musical
It’s been a difficult year for me. This year will mark the second year after my graduation from Eastern Illinois University and I still have not found work. I have no income, and so far my attempts to seek help through the local branch of
Picture this: The scene is Des Moines, Iowa, 2011. A joyous and excited engaged couple, in preparation for their upcoming nuptials, entered Victoria Childress’s home bake shop for a taste testing appointment for their wedding cake. The tradition of the wedding cake dates back centuries.
His [Phillip Lee] Way Out ministry contends in its brochures that its position comes from the authority of Scripture rather than social sciences and medicine. The “sexually broken” can be transformed through close reading of Scripture and openly discussing temptations, the ministry contends. “Since it
So then let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober; for those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober,
“This is the day that God has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24) “It is like someone going on a journey, who when leaving home puts in charge people who are enslaved, each with a particular task, and commands the
God’s Will Cover Stories God’s Will in Three Questions By Rev. Candace Chellew When we talk about “God’s will,” we are not talking about the specific things God wants us to do in our lives like our jobs, who we marry (or what gender they