by Craig Nash | Oct 24, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following appeared in the March/April 2024 issue of Nurturing Faith Journal (NFJ). In 2025, NFJ will become Good Faith Magazine and will be available for free to all Good Faith Advocates. When I was younger, I despised telling an older person about...
by Tamice Spencer-Helms | Jul 16, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Recently, Christian Rap artist Lecrae shared an interview link on Threads featuring a self-identified gay Christian, sparking intense discussion in the comments. This discourse prompted the creation of this article. Important to the discourse is the fact that In 2016,...
by Craig Nash | Apr 24, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Tim Whitaker thinks a lot. He and I have that in common. In October 2020, he was sitting in a rocking chair on his front porch, thinking. He and his partner had a newborn, and it was the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. His church, like most churches at the time,...
by Mitch Randall | Jul 13, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
You may not believe me after reading my latest columns, but there was a day when I was a flaming fundamentalist. Enrolled in Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1993, I arrived on campus between the theological and ideological mindsets...
by Starlette Thomas | Aug 15, 2022 | Opinion, The Raceless Gospel Initiative
“I need you to help me.” A European American woman said this to me while I was facilitating a dialogue on race and baptismal identity. It completely changed the conversation for me. Because conversations about race and its progeny are communal and deeply personal —...