By Loren Seibold  |  24 September 2021  |   I was given a blessing in regard to LGBTQ+ people when I was younger, though I didn’t understand it at the time, nor realize how it would shape my ministry. I grew up in the narrow world of rural North Dakota. Questions of sexual orientation were not […]

by Arthur Sibanda  |  22 September 2021  | This year’s global Women’s Ministries Week of Emphasis used the theme Bringing Peace Home: Addressing youth violence at the roots.  Women’s Ministries is a department I initially viewed with suspicion through my patriarchal lenses. Yet the Women’s Ministries department has continued to demonstrate excellence in giving voice […]

by S.M. Chen  |  21 September 2021  | “The art of losing isn’t hard to master.” —Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), American poet: “One Art.” It is noon.   Not High Noon, the 1952 film in which actor Gary Cooper, a lone sheriff in a cowardly town, faces the prospect of fighting a band of outlaws by himself […]

by Lindsey Abston Painter  |  14 September 2021  |   Only if you have been living under a rock would you not have heard that at the beginning of September the state legislators in Texas passed a draconian law criminalizing abortions past six weeks of pregnancy. Not only the woman who has an abortion will be […]

by Kirsten Øster-Lundqvist  |  13 September 2021  | Seeing the news coming out of Afghanistan is heart-breaking. Whatever your political leanings, there is no denying that this is a devastating event for everyone in Afghanistan—especially the women. “They will come and kill me,” Afghanistan’s first female mayor told the Sydney Morning Herald. Zarifa Ghafari, 29, […]

by Loren Seibold  |  7 September 2021  | Shortly after 9/11, I rushed out a book on the event for Pacific Press, which they titled badly and promoted poorly, and it didn’t sell. (Lesson: writing a book isn’t an automatic path to fame. I’ve often wondered if anyone read it—aside from Mrs. Hooper, my academy […]