by Tracy Mandl | Oct 23, 2026 | News
First Baptist Church on St. Clair in Frankfort, Kentucky, was met with a shock in 2025 when a historic flood waterlogged its building on the banks of the Kentucky River. According to pastor Amanda Smith, long-time congregants who had prepared the building for...
by Justin Cox | Oct 15, 2026 | Opinion
It weren’t nothing but an egg. A deviled one at that. The line was long in the church fellowship hall. I was one of three pastors scrambling around. The Baptists, Lutherans, and Presbyterians decided to get together to eat. Our congregations share a neighborhood, and...
by Justin Cox | Sep 29, 2026 | Opinion
“There’s no AC in the sanctuary.” That’s what the text said. The church administrator sent it to me. She’d also included the chair of the building and grounds committee in the group chat. “Helluva time for it to give out,” I wrote back. Summer in North Carolina can...
by Leah Davis | Aug 14, 2026 | Opinion
I’ll never forget looking across the plastic purple tablecloths to my then-five-year-old, Lydia, sitting next to one of the saints of our church. Bob, who was about 80 at the time, was helping Lydia string together the beads of an Advent bracelet: two purple beads,...
by Wanda Kidd | Aug 6, 2026 | Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following first appeared in the July-September 2026 issue of Good Faith Magazine. About a dozen college freshmen were in a get-to-know-you small group early in the semester. The task was to share a little about yourself with the group. About halfway...
