by Jana Peterson | May 11, 2022 | Opinion
Why there is a growing lack of church attendance across the U.S. seems to be a perpetual question, spanning at least the last quarter-century of my adult life. Mike Moore’s Christianity Today article, “The Rise of the ‘Umms’,” joins the chorus of people trying to make...
by Jana Peterson | Jul 1, 2021 | Opinion
We can’t keep doing the same things over and over while crossing our fingers hoping for a different outcome. A chapel speaker during my high school years put it this way, “If we always do what we’ve always done, we’ll always get what we’ve always got.” This insight...
by Jana Peterson | Apr 1, 2021 | News
A new collaborative podcast will drop at Good Faith Media next week. “Discovering Wholeness: Healing Trauma, Unearthing Self” will focus on a variety of topics that address what it means to heal from trauma. The first two episodes of season one will be available on...
by Jana Peterson | Mar 24, 2021 | Opinion
We celebrate what is traditionally known as Palm Sunday on the sixth Sunday of Lent. Here is my paraphrase of the Palm Sunday narrative featured in the lectionary texts this week: As Jesus rode the young colt into Jerusalem, People came from all around to honor him....
by Jana Peterson | Jan 25, 2021 | Opinion
Amanda Gorman proudly declared that “being American is more than a pride we inherit,” in her brilliant poem written for President Biden’s inauguration ceremony. “It’s the past we step into and how we repair it,” she said. Her poem, “The Hill We Climb,” is both...
