by Baptist Women in Ministry of North Carolina | Aug 27, 2025 | Opinion
When I told my adult daughter we were working on an article about creating a Theology of Technology, she replied, “Well, that should be easy! There’s no technology in the Bible!” I know what she was thinking. Christian scripture has no mention of computers, cell...
by Chris Murphy | Aug 26, 2025 | Opinion
The church can be such a small place. Numerically small, sure. But that’s not what weighs on me. Our smallness runs deep, narrowing our imaginations, darkening our eyes to possibilities. We talk about God’s coming kin-dom (or Kingdom, depending on who you hang with),...
by Leah Davis | Aug 19, 2025 | Opinion
On a recent Sunday, I confessed to my suburban Washington, D.C. congregation something I had never done before in nearly 20 years of preaching and pastoring: I scrapped the previously written sermon and started over on Saturday night. Sure, I have altered sermons the...
by Erin Parks | Aug 8, 2025 | Opinion
We young people are tired. Those of us who grew up with your walls as our second childhood home no longer feel at home in your sacred space. And instead of being heard, we continue to be blamed for the decline of the American church. I can’t speak on behalf of all...
by K. Mekhi Jackson | Aug 5, 2025 | Opinion
To speak of reimagining the Black Church is to stand in a long tradition of holy critique and sacred hope. The Black Church, in all its denominational expressions, has never been static. It has evolved through enslavement, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights...
