by Ruth Sprayberry DuCharme | Jul 13, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
How do you imagine God? When you picture God in your mind’s eye, what image i present? Does God appear to you as the classical Zeus-like figure, sitting upon a throne with a long white beard and flowing white robe? Or does your image of God look more like the tranquil...
by Starlette Thomas | Jul 12, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Is the church a body or a building? Card-carrying member of a church or cross-bearer in the world, how do you view the body of Christ? Season four of The Raceless Gospel podcast invites listeners to take a fresh look at what it means to follow Jesus – to the ends of...
by Amy Butler | Jul 12, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Lectionary preachers were assigned Genesis 22 recently, the story of Abraham’s almost-murder of his son Isaac, as a text for worship. If you recall, the story goes that Abraham heard a voice the text calls God’s voice, telling him to take his son Isaac on a hike, to...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 11, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
It would be impossible to calculate how much of my life has been spent in Baptist churches — and in how many different ones of all shapes, sizes and locations. Some of those experiences have been as a member of a faith community. Other countless hours were spent as a...
by Kali Cawthon-Freels | Jul 11, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
I gave into societal pressure and joined the TikTok community. When it comes to the breadth of content you can scroll through, Alice and the White Rabbit have nothing on this rabbit hole. In my rabbit-hole scrolling, I recently stumbled across some creators teaching...
by Libby Carroll | Jul 10, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Author’s Disclaimer: Throughout this article, I have opted to use person-first and disability-first language interchangeably when referring to people with disabilities. Disabled people have thoughtful and varied reasons for preferring one form of language over the...
