The Archive

Day: May 26, 2016

Desegregating our spiritual lives

May 26, 2016 5 Comments

by Edwin Smit and Louie Crew Clay The Presiding Bishop and General Convention have called on the whole church to respond to “systemic racial

The faces of homelessness today

May 26, 2016 2 Comments

There are three categories of people in the U.S. at risk of becoming homeless: those over 50, veterans and LGBTQ youth. Let’s take a look a closer look at these groups and the hardships they face.

Popping Collars #40: Suffer the little children

May 26, 2016 No Comments

Betsy, Greg, Heather, and Stephen talk about the challenges and joys of parenting in the digital age and what insights that gives us into technology use in the Church.

Does the mind of God change?

May 26, 2016 5 Comments

When people do change their minds, we often applaud them. They got it, we say! They turned to the right side! They made the healthy choice! And it is true that changing one’s mind can be a good thing. Yet, somehow, we also tend to denigrate people who change their minds. When leaders change their minds (to a position we disagree with), we claim that they are wishy-washy, that we can’t trust them.

Speaking to the Soul: Weeds and all

May 26, 2016 9 Comments

After her death we learned that for the entire time she was working with the lowliest of sufferers she felt an absence of God’s presence in her life that left her in agonizing desolation.