Church Life

A Love Song for the Long-Haul: LA UMC Pastors on Hurricane Ida Aftermath

September 10, 2021

Church Life, Creation & Environment, Practical Justice

The journey ahead is complex and rightly so—filled with both triage and rehab efforts, insurance claims and bucket truck parades, adrenaline highs and compassion fatigue, questions about climate change and environmental refugees, retelling the story, and sharing the load again and again and again.

Kayla Craig is Resourcing Parents for These Times

Rachel Ophoff

September 1, 2021

Books, Church Life, Family and Parenting

For those worried about their kids in these days of active shooter drills and other unsettling events, Kayla Craig fearlessly opens doors into frightening scenarios. How do we pray about gun violence in schools? How do we talk to our kids about racism?

How Should the Church Respond to the Tents That Line Our Urban Streets?

Sparrow Etter Carlson

August 19, 2021

Church Life, General, Practical Justice

Until we begin to ascribe to the people we’re attempting to “serve" the same kinds of complexities, nuances, kindnesses, and curiosity that we ascribe and acknowledge in ourselves, we will continue to create models of care that simply do not work.

Roots of Justice

Calenthia Dowdy

August 16, 2021

Books, Church Life, Practical Justice, Race

Much of the healing involves acknowledging that institutions, not just people, are racist.

How Sunday Schools Can Help Prevent Gun Violence

Rosalind Hughes

August 14, 2021

Church Life, Family and Parenting, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice

As we return to Sunday School or youth programming, we have an opportunity — whether it takes place in person or online — to inform and educate families as we ask for their information to register their young people.

Speak Love, Not War

Robyn Dyba

August 4, 2021

Church Life, Peace & Nonviolence, Theology

Why is it that our modern church culture identifies faith with the language of pain, aggression, and domination more so than with nurturing peace and equality?

How Mormonism Can Save America

Jana Riess

August 2, 2021

Books, Church Life, Politics, Practical Justice

Mormonism teaches me that I don’t get to excommunicate folks from my world just because we disagree. And I am so, so glad of it.

The Christian Right and the Decline of White Evangelicalism

William Trollinger

July 30, 2021

Church Life, General, Politics

In short, the quantitative and qualitative evidence – and, I will add, my own anecdotal evidence – strongly support the argument that the Christian Right has been a primary factor in the decline of white evangelicalism in the last decade and the dramatic rise of the nones since the 1990s.

Worth Fighting For: A Word from the Desens House

Dean Wright

July 29, 2021

Church Life, Practical Justice, Women

Standing in the midst of that house in chaos felt like a refection on the chaos of my soul over the past few years. After being very active in our church, I had hit a season of exhaustion and burnout.

The Calling of Transformation

Morf Morford

July 26, 2021

Church Life, General, Interfaith

These are the people who follow the calling we are all called to follow: to leave a trail of transformation wherever we go. There is no greater calling.

A Love Song for the Long-Haul: LA UMC Pastors on Hurricane Ida Aftermath

Kayla Craig is Resourcing Parents for These Times

How Should the Church Respond to the Tents That Line Our Urban Streets?

Roots of Justice

How Sunday Schools Can Help Prevent Gun Violence

Speak Love, Not War

How Mormonism Can Save America

The Christian Right and the Decline of White Evangelicalism

Worth Fighting For: A Word from the Desens House

The Calling of Transformation

In Opposition of the Line 3 Pipeline

The Wrong Debate: On Alabama’s New Gas Chamber

Women of Faith Can Help Advance Climate Justice

A Love Song for the Long-Haul: LA UMC Pastors on Hurricane Ida Aftermath

What I Learned About God by Praying for Osama bin Laden