Cover image via history.ChurchofJesusChrist.org. “I Can Tie, I Can Ride, and I Can Zip!” In our modern world we know quite a lot compared to what humans knew even fifty years ago. Who, fifty years ago, could have imagined a world without typewriters, carbon paper, and whiteout? Or a world
Freedom Fugitives — By Shannon Vowell I write on June 19th or “Juneteenth,” the newest federal holiday. Juneteenth commemorates the day – June 19, 1865 – when news of Union victory and universal emancipation finally reached Galveston, Texas, by way of Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and 1,800 federal troops. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
7 Signs Your Church Will Never Change Here are 7 signs your church is never going to change. 13 Signs Your Church Is Dying Here are 13 signs of a dying church every church leader should look out for – in their churches and in their hearts. Americans placing more
I’ve been experiencing a season of remembrance. It started when Perry family members gathered at my home on Mother’s Day. My sister-in-law Johanne showed up wearing what she wears every year on this occasion: colorful homemade necklaces–gifts created by her four children when they were young. Each time I see
The Best and Worst of Disaffiliation — By Thomas Lambrecht As we reach the end of the regular annual conference season, the prospect of over 20 percent of United Methodist congregations disaffiliating from the denomination has aroused varying responses, from highly positive and gracious to extremely negative and punitive. Most
from the ELCA advocacy office in Washington, D.C. – the Rev. Amy E. Reumann, Senior Director Partial expanded content from Advocacy Connections: June/July 2023 ENERGIZING FARM BILL LISTENING SESSIONS | AFGHAN ADJUSTMENT ACT REINTRODUCED | NEW WHO NETWORK LAUNCHES | WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT DECISION | DEBT
Eight Ways Any Church Can Get the Attention of the Neighborhood God’s mission travels in one vehicle: the church. In the same way that different kinds of vehicles travel our roadways, many different churches share the good news message. No congregation has a corner on the Kingdom, and every Bible-believing
How I Discovered That, by the Standards of Contemporary Academic Philosophy, Thomist Claims Must Be Problematic I was already fifty-five years old when I discovered that I had become a Thomistic Aristotelian. But I had first encountered Thomism thirty-eight years earlier, as an undergraduate, not in the form of moral philosophy,