Latest from ESASkipping the News?October 19, 2018By Jon Carlson This is the fourth installment in our six-week visual series on exploring what God’s love looks like, when we live it out in our world. If you’re just joining us, you can begin with the first installment here. Today, try to avoid devoting attention to the news…... Read more...A Prayer for Women and SurvivorsOctober 18, 2018By Ellie Wilber God, We feel afraid, angry, and powerless. We are hearing, from so many voices, that we do not have value in this society. That if we speak up we will not be heard. That our bodies are not our own and violations of them will go without…... Read more...The Crucial Importance of Holistic ReconciliationOctober 17, 2018By Al Tizon I wish that the words “gospel,” “church,” and “mission” had no need of additional adjectives to convey their compelling truths. I wish that when outsiders heard these words, they would imagine a community of ordinary but loving people who shine the light of God in a darkened…... Read more...Called to Join the Fray: A Review of “Raise Your Voice”October 16, 2018By Dorcas Cheng-Tozun I first encountered Kathy Khang on social media several years ago. I don’t remember the specific issue she was addressing, but I remember reading her tweets and Facebook comments with a combination of admiration and awe. She challenged the status quo and spoke truth to power with…... Read more...The Dangerous Words of Modern Martyr Archbishop Oscar RomeroOctober 15, 2018By Oscar Romero with Michael Lapsley Oscar Romero spent just three years as Archbishop of San Salvador, but by the time he was murdered in 1980 he had become a shepherd to all the people of El Salvador, and the outspoken advocate of its oppressed peasants. In those three years,…... Read more...What If We Don’t Agree?October 12, 2018By Jon Carlson This is the third installment in our six-week visual series on exploring what God’s love looks like, when we live it out in our world. If you’re just joining us, you can begin with the first installment here. Today, ask God to bring to mind a journalist,…... Read more...The Abused Bride of ChristOctober 11, 2018By Catherine Kroeger Like an abused woman, the church is battered and bleeding—from a wound that she fails to recognize. Many evangelicals cannot bear to acknowledge that spousal abuse is an enduring problem within our very walls. Both individually and as a faith community, we are ashamed and humiliated to admit…... Read more...Created In God’s Image, At Any Size: An Interview With J. Nicole MorganOctober 10, 2018By Melanie Springer Mock When Paige Patterson made a “comeback sermon” last month at a church revival in Alabama, he chose to include body-shaming as a way to bring his listeners to Jesus. Patterson had been fired months earlier from his post as president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,…... Read more...Labor Pains and Maternal GriefOctober 9, 2018By Sarah Withrow King Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! ~Matthew 23:37 I am a mother.…... Read more...
