Latest from ESALoving LGBT People Well: 12 Suggestions for Traditional ChurchesJuly 17, 2019by Lindsey and Sarah Amid significant discussions about how churches relate to LGBT people, many people wonder whether churches that teach traditional sexual ethics can love LGBT people well. Part of the question relates to how people understand the term traditional sexual ethics, but a bigger part of the question…...Read more...Communion Liturgy for FreedomJuly 16, 2019By Kristyn Komarnicki It is for freedom that Christ has set us free! (Galatians 5:1) Jesus paid the price so that we can be free, and for this reason we can approach him with freedom, confidence, and joy. We invite you to use this communion liturgy—written largely in the second person…...Read more...Bearing WitnessJuly 15, 2019By Beth Foster The trees around the slaughterhouse are filled with a fatal lullaby because the mockingbirds have learned this funeral dirge of the young. Peep. Peep. Peep. That’s what haunts me most—even more than the puddles of blood and the truck brimming with the “waste” parts of bodies. It…...Read more...Liturgy for Millennials? A Review of “Ever Ancient, Ever New”July 11, 2019A zealous, albeit flawed, examination of liturgy in contemporary churches. By Leslie Michele In his book Ever Ancient, Ever New, Winfield Bevins makes a case for the transformative power of the ancient rituals engaged in by Christians throughout the centuries. Clearly writing to the large swath of evangelicals who have…...Read more...Watch What God Is Doing…July 10, 2019Read more...Dangerous Inequality: The Huge, Escalating Gap Between the Rich and the RestJuly 9, 2019By Ron Sider The distribution of income and wealth is more unequal today than at any time since 1928—just before the Great Depression. The richest 1% of Americans own more wealth than the bottom 90%. The bottom 50% of families have a median annual income of $24,900, while the richest…...Read more...We Need Our Immigrant Sisters and Brothers: A Review of “The God Who Sees”July 8, 2019By Matthew Soerens In 2006, as the U.S. Senate debated a comprehensive immigration reform bill and immigrants went to the streets in massive marches, it was difficult to find a book with a distinctly evangelical perspective on the topic of immigration. I know, because I was looking. I’d just begun…...Read more...Why July 4th Celebrations Trouble MeJuly 4, 2019Pro-American jargon simply doesn’t represent what should be the humble attitude of Jesus followers. By Benjamin Corey As I logged onto Facebook on July 4th, I saw the predictable and obligatory independence posts clogging my news feed. Offensive images of the American flag with scripture scrawled about, countless posts about…...Read more...Invitation to Live: A Review of “Safehold”July 3, 2019By Adriel Rose There’s something about poetry that is particularly grounding for me. Poetry stops time in unusual ways, quieting my chaotic mind enough to take in every word. The pictures painted in each stanza form so clearly in my imagination that I find myself lost in the author’s world.…...Read more...
