by Steve Harmon | May 13, 2025 | Opinion
Yesterday, journalists were granted an audience with the new pope. I attended with fellow Good Faith Media writer Grace Ji-Sun Kim. Together, we recorded some of our impressions of the pontiff from our respective Presbyterian and Baptist perspectives for possible...
by Jamie Marich | May 13, 2025 | Opinion
“We have a Pope!” my mother, a lifelong and devoted Catholic, texted me at 12:13 p.m. ET on Thursday. I was in the middle of teaching a course when I caught a glimpse of her text. My heart skipped with excitement. The formal announcement of Robert Prevost as Pope Leo...
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim | May 12, 2025 | Opinion
I was invited to speak at “Creation Day & the Nicaea Centenary: Crystallizing the Ecumenical Dream of the New Liturgical Feast” in Assisi, held May 5–7. The ecumenical conference aimed to advance a Season of Creation within the broader Christian body, so we might...
by Starlette Thomas | May 12, 2025 | Opinion
Without art, we are trapped in the simple and small minds of the so-called powerful, who can only think about and for themselves. It is mostly men who take up too much space, manspreading and who talk way too much, mansplaining. But they listen long enough to take...
by Angela Yarber | May 12, 2025 | Opinion
As the United Methodist Church recently ruled that officiating same-sex weddings is up to individual pastors and we honor lifting the 40-year ban on LGBTQ+ clergy, I think of a poetry book intimately tied to this so-called debate. Rebecca Wilson’s “Unraveling” is a...
by Anna Piela | May 12, 2025 | Opinion
On May 3, during its annual meeting, the American Baptist Churches of Metro Chicago (ABCMC) became the first region within the American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) to unanimously pass a resolution declaring itself a sanctuary region. The resolution was authored by...
