by Erin Parks | Jun 5, 2025 | Opinion
As a Food and Nutrition teacher, I teach food safety handling and managing principles. The longer I have taught, the more I have realized food safety is an underrated yet crucial aspect of community care. Church potlucks may be one of the best reasons to be a church...
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim | Jun 5, 2025 | Opinion
Growing up in the Korean Presbyterian Church, I never heard the word “Pentecost.” For me, every Sunday was the same: Sunday School, worship and fellowship with Korean food. The only difference was on Easter and Christmas, when the sanctuary came alive with vibrant...
by Craig Nash | Jun 4, 2025 | Opinion
I recently interviewed Jeff Hiller via Zoom and, at the end of our conversation, flubbed his name. “Thanks, Joel,” I said, before catching myself and then stuttering, embarrassed, “Uh, I mean Jeff.” For a week, I walked around ashamed of having referred to the...
by Jason Edwards | Jun 4, 2025 | Opinion
A few years ago, when my son was still small, he looked up at his mom and asked, “Will I ever be a normal boy?” It’s the kind of question a child asks when the world has already started to draw its lines. Jackson is older now—a high school sophomore with strong...
by Craig Nash | Jun 3, 2025 | Opinion
Like their work to narrowly define the idea of family, the U.S. K-12 education system is a sphere of influence that Seven Mountain Mandate (7MM) adherents have spent decades chipping away at, carving it into their Christian-supremacist vision of the world. (Their...
by Angela Yarber | Jun 3, 2025 | Opinion
As Pride Month unfolds against the backdrop of escalating anti-trans legislation and harmful rhetoric from political leaders, faith communities are uniquely positioned to embody radical love, justice and truth. Now more than ever, it is imperative that these...
