by Sean McKenzie | Dec 18, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
I teach in a 70% Hispanic high school in northwest Georgia. Although it has its challenges, it is generally a good place to work. The students are quiet but respectful, dutifully taking notes and completing their assignments. I worry that some of my students are in...
by Craig Nash | Dec 17, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Anyone who reads Alexei Navalny’s posthumously released memoir “Patriot” without connecting the dots between Vladimir Putin’s Russian and Donald Trump’s America is either not paying attention or didn’t learn to connect dots in preschool. The almost 500-page book has...
by Mitch Randall | Dec 13, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
The Gospel of Matthew records, “Jesus went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness among the people” (4:23, NRSV). Matthew does not say that Jesus cured only a select...
by Tim Wildsmith | Dec 11, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following first appeared in the November/December issue of Nurturing Faith Journal (NFJ). In 2025, NFJ will become Good Faith Magazine and be free for a year for all Good Faith Advocates. I’m not sure how this happened, but several years ago, I...
by Justin Bronson Barringer | Dec 10, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Twenty years ago, I heard Greg Boyd’s sermon series “The Cross and the Sword,” one of the most compelling I have ever heard. The series later became the basis for his book “The Myth of a Christian Nation.” Boyd challenged me to think deeply about the...
