by Trent Clifford | Dec 4, 2025 | Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following first appeared in the January/March 2025 issue of Good Faith Magazine, which is a complementary resource for all Good Faith Advocates. Coming together to put on a play involves a community with a common goal. Everyone is bound together by...
by Michael Parnell | Dec 4, 2025 | Opinion
Why would a group of Baptists from North Carolina travel to Scotland to stay in the abbey on the island of Iona? That was a question we faced during our stay at a very un-Baptistic location in the Hebrides. I was one of thirteen people who made the journey to spend a...
by Mark Sandlin | Dec 3, 2025 | Opinion
Many of us didn’t go looking for progressive Christianity. We simply found ourselves standing in the rubble of a faith that stopped making sense. Some of us outgrew fear-based religion while others were pushed out. Some stayed as long as we could until honesty...
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim | Dec 3, 2025 | Opinion
When I saw the word “Advent” as a child, my heart instinctively read “adventure.” The Advent season has always stirred in me a sense of anticipation, as though something wondrous, transformative, and deeply holy is just beyond the horizon. As a child, I thought it was...
by Delaney Metcalf | Dec 3, 2025 | Opinion
We live in a world that hands us stones every day. Not always literal rocks, but sometimes. Usually, our stones are words that cut, systems that fail, glances that slice. Every headline feels like a hammer. Every delay, a shove. Every accusation, a weight pressing on...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Dec 2, 2025 | Opinion
Early in my life, I started my journey through this earth as a refugee when my parents fled the rise of an authoritarian regime in their homeland. With just the few possessions they were able to stuff into a suitcase, they arrived in New York City—with me, just...
