Discipleship and Disasters
During disasters, discipleship isn’t our first choice, but the last thing we seek. We are left with broken lives, bruised spirits, and weary souls.
During disasters, discipleship isn’t our first choice, but the last thing we seek. We are left with broken lives, bruised spirits, and weary souls.
The Pentecost fire has been active amongst our Latino brothers and sisters.
These three practices kept me moving forward as a black kid in Chicago.
A trip to LA produced bright and insightful conversations with emerging CRC leaders that far outshined the weather.
Contempt and disgust feed the need to justify violence against enemies, but Jackie and Jesus provide an alternative way.
Not everyone in Israel declared David as their king at first, and his rule began with strife and misunderstanding. Today, many multicultural ministries feel the same.
In a dream, I wrestled with the Lord to deliver me from this difficult situation and land me in a church flowing with milk and honey.
When did I know I was a die-hard Chicago Cubs fan?
Doing hard leadership tasks makes the path better for everyone.
I recently traveled for the first time since the pandemic began. My friends, the creative leaders I met are doing a new thing among us!
Why are Christians so angry?
In my role as director of the Office of Diversity, I'm grateful to catch small glimpses of Jesus at work through resilient leaders.
Read about the inaugural edition of the Diversity newsletter in this post by the Director of Diversity. Through this newsletter we hope that together we can become learners about the variety of cultures God has created and more involved in the diverse communities and diaspora in this world.
Los programas de juegos con encuestas son divertidos y triviales. Pero cuando se trata del trabajo misional y adaptativo de la iglesia, lo que dice la encuesta denominacional no es suficiente.
Game shows with surveys are fun and trivial. But when it comes to missional, adaptive work of the church, what the denominational survey says is not enough.
My mother called me out of the blue a few weeks ago. I thought it would be a conversation about the weather or what she was cooking. Instead she disclosed things I never heard about her childhood.
No tomemos señales de una cultura basada en el miedo que busca chivos expiatorios, sino que nos apoyémonos en el buen evangelio que conocemos, amamos y obedecemos.
Synod 2019 declared kinism a heresy, but many in our denomination may still be left wondering: What exactly is kinism? Where did it come from? Is this something that our churches are actually dealing with?
It’s said so often in the U.S. that churches that get involved in social justice decline in membership. But the story of Korea, and the story of the African-American community in the U.S., tells a very different story.
So what can we do about the violence in our neighborhoods? How do we avoid either minimizing it with easy answers or throwing up our hands because it overwhelms us?
Churches are more than buildings taking up space in a city, town, or neighborhood. These are people who encounter the God of cities and nations.