Apr 3, 2025 | Mission, Practices
How can we make sense of Jesus as a miracle worker in light of modern science? For many people today—especially those who value reason and empirical evidence—stories of supernatural events can be hard to accept. Miracles often seem like relics of a pre-scientific...
Feb 26, 2025 | Mission, Practices
In the Gospel of Luke, we encounter a truly unique group who helped lay the foundations of Christianity. These disciples weren’t theologians or religious scholars—they were lay people, regular folks with everyday jobs and no formal religious training. That Jesus chose...
Apr 4, 2024 | Mission, Practices
Featured on Baptist News Global Q&A with Chris Sanders on unions, social justice and policing Chris Sanders knows theology and law, and he’s an advocate both for labor unions and social justice. That blend of life experience and life passion makes for an...
Sep 8, 2021 | Mission, Practices
“What do you want? A medal? A prize just for showing up? Do your job!” Ouch, that’s a little harsh. Use your mind’s ear to hear those words delivered with sarcasm at high volume, by a shrill friend, or an exasperated boss, or a military drill instructor. How does that...
Sep 2, 2021 | Mission, Practices
History is made of moments. Days of pride and days of infamy. In infamy, Dec. 7, 1941. Sept. 11. Burned into our souls. Let Jan. 6 be burned there, too. Lest we forget. The Tulsa Race Massacre of June 1921 is now burning into America’s soul. Rightly so. Too much of...
Jan 27, 2021 | Mission, Practices
A couple of years ago, the movie “Selma” introduced America to a few heroes of the civil rights movement whose names aren’t well-known. And we also saw the hundreds of people walking across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama whose names we...