Read the rest of the Via Creativa: What Now? series Jubilee! Circle, Columbia, S.C. Readings for the Fourth Sunday in Lent: Then the Lord sent poisonous serpents among the people. (Numbers 21:4-9) For God so loved the world… (John 3:14-21) Now faith is the assurance
“I can never forgive myself for that.” How many times have we heard someone utter those words with a genuine sense of sincerity, spoken them ourselves, or experienced that thought as a feeling? It’s a phrase that a great many of us are likely to
“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,