by Robert Crux | 7 March 2024 | Politicians should not be given the power to determine who Jesus loves. Yet, millions of Americans have asked these leaders to use their political power to fulfill a vision of Jesus that is exclusive and discriminatory. The idea that Jesus loves borders, guns, unborn babies, and economic […]
by Thandazani Mhlanga | 16 November 2023 | Proficient storytellers understand that storytelling is the art of shaping human lives. In the hands of a skilled rhetorician, it may be the sharpest transformational tool in our ideological tool box. Storytellers know that how a story is told is inextricable from why it is told. Yet […]
by Linda Nottingham | 28 September 2023 | As a child growing up in a Christian home, I always had a clear sense of what Jesus looked like. The certainty of that belief was easy enough to explain: the many-times reprinted portrait of Warner Sallman’s head of Christ hung on the wall in my mother’s […]
by Stephen Ferguson | 15 September 2023 | What many readers may not quite understand—especially American readers—is that when Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor, better known as Charles III, was coronated in May, he was crowned not merely king of the United Kingdom, but of 14 other Commonwealth realms. These other realms include Canada, New […]
by Loren Seibold | 9 June 2023 | In the little country church where I grew up I remember, one Sabbath, sitting next to my friend Keith in the church service. This particular day he poked me with his elbow and passed his Bible over to me, pointing to 1 Kings 21:21. “Read that,” he […]
By Maylan Schurch, February 14, 2016: The One Project format is that a couple of people make TED-talk style presentations, and then the table discusses questions relating to those presentation. Emily Poole, an advancement officer at Walla Walla University, said this near the close of her talk on the sheep and the goats: “A life […]
