Jordan Rowan Fannin, Author at Good Faith Media

On the Power of Dirty Clothes: Learning about Poverty from Two Men Named Francis

by Jordan Rowan Fannin | Apr 23, 2025 | Opinion

Pope Francis was a man who knew poverty. As the Catholic Church’s leader, he made poverty visible as an act of theological witness. As the church’s shepherd, he sought to ameliorate it with pastoral tenderness. As a Baptist, Pope Francis held no formal ecclesial role...

This Lent Has Destroyed Your Illusion of Self-Sufficiency – Part 2

by Jordan Rowan Fannin | Apr 9, 2020 | Opinion

The fear you feel right now, the unease that tightens your chest, clenches your jaw and disturbs your sleep is not simply worry about your income, productivity or health. It is the creeping realization we are dependent beings, knit into a garment of mutuality and...

This Lent Has Destroyed Your Illusion of Self-Sufficiency

by Jordan Rowan Fannin | Apr 8, 2020 | Opinion

Lent is holy timekeeping for those of us who follow the church’s calendar. It begins each year on that first Wednesday when we hear someone remind us that we will die. With ashen faces, we spend the next 40 days marking time with a season of contemplation and acts of...