The Problem Your Church Can Feel but Can’t Name with Gavin Adams Most churches aren’t stuck because they lack passion. They’re stuck because of 48 layers of paint. Gavin Adams has a name for what’s quietly slowing your church down, and once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Gavin
In August 2016, while accepting the Republican nomination for president in Cleveland, Ohio, Donald Trump uttered five words that many observers instantly recognized as a rupture from the past. The system is rigged, he declared—and “I alone can fix it.” The Atlantic’s Yoni Applebaum described the speech as “breaking with
In earlier Jeremiah chapters, the prophet lists the woes that will befall apostate covenant Israel, but he doesn’t leave it there. Only the Lord knows how to turn this level of desolation and mourning to joy. Meridian Magazine
Pilgrimage as a Spiritual Possibility By James R. Thobaben This article first appeared in the March 2022 edition of Good News. In 1864, as the American Civil War turned toward its inevitable (and proper) conclusion, Methodists in North Carolina published The Southern Zion’s Songster. Included in the work, albeit uncredited,
‘The UK is a mission field’ – churches encouraged to embrace cross-cultural mission on their doorstep Churches are being encouraged to embrace cross-cultural mission on their own doorstep by building relationships with people of different backgrounds and generations who may have little or no contact with Christianity. Experienced practitioners in
Why did Pope Francis write Dilexit Nos, his final encyclical, on the Sacred Heart of Jesus? In many ways, it was a surprise. It was unexpected. Pope Francis has been especially thought of as a Pope of Catholic Social Teaching, with perhaps his most important encyclical, Laudato Si’, on care
1. What Is a Poem? An ordering of words arranged in a certain pattern (determined by the will of its creator), which fulfils the basic function of language. For ages now attempts have been made to determine the certain characteristics that distinguish the language of poetry from the language of,