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Women Behind the Wall: Helping Each Other Heal
Podcast Episode #7: Helping Each Other Heal The Women Behind the Wall podcast highlights female voices from the Holy Land, and is hosted and produced solely by women who live and work in Jerusalem....
The False God of Conservative Christianity
By Stephen Mattson There's a religion whose savior was a refugee, yet it rejects refugees. Whose God embraces sojourners, yet it deports immigrants. Whose parishioners worship someone called the Prince of Peace, yet they...
It Might Surprise You, But Young Evangelicals Like Me Are Writing a New Story
By Kevin Singer How generosity, hospitality, and presence can change the narrative on interfaith work It was my sophomore year of college, and I was booking bands at a little coffeehouse called Java 101....
Waiting, For Now
By Alfred Delp Advent is the time of promise; it is not yet the time of fulfillment. We are still in the midst of everything and in the logical inexorability and relentlessness of destiny....
Gun Violence: America's Greatest Spiritual and Moral Crisis
By James E. Atwood My life as a young pastor, and the trajectory of my ministry, changed almost in the twinkling of an eye one afternoon in 1975. My secretary informed me I had...
Shaking a Fist(ful of Joy) in the Face of Despair
By Kristyn Komarnicki This is the world I'm handing off to my young adult sons and future grandchildren? A nation where the merits of removing protections from select groups of humans is an actual...
A Letter to Boy, Age Seven
By Elrena Evans Merry Christmas! I picked your card off the Christmas tree in my church because I have three boys of my own—two older than you and one younger—and I thought they might...
The Eve of Advent
By Eberhard Arnold In the past God spoke…through the prophets at many times and in various ways. ~ Hebrews 1:1 Advent is a time in which we share in the longing of all those...
Difficult Discussions at Dinner?
Are you nervous about navigating potentially tricky conversations with loved ones today? ESA's dialogue expert, Kristyn Komarnicki, shares some strategies for dialogue across difference. (Click here for an edited transcript of this conversation.) ...
Let's Keep "Give" in Thanksgiving
This article originally appeared on November 9th, 2015. It's not Thanksbuying. Or Thanksworking. It's Thanksgiving, a time to rest and feast and reconnect with family and friends, a time to give thanks to the...
