by James Ellis III | Jan 28, 2026 | Opinion
As I was leaving an urban church I pastored, the congregation asked me to share things they should improve for whoever came after me. I recited a line from the title track of Prince’s iconic 1984 album and film Purple Rain: “You say you want a leader, but you can’t...
by Kali Cawthon-Freels | Jan 27, 2026 | Opinion
I’ve never been a violent person. Even so, I am intimately familiar with the language of violence. I was introduced to it as a teenager in the early 2000s in my charismatic evangelical youth group. Church leaders encouraged us to go everywhere with our “sword” so we...
by Jonathan Greer | Jan 25, 2026 | Opinion
I began 2026 with the grand idea of reading through the Bible in a year. It has been a slow start, not because I am not reading, but because I keep returning to certain texts for closer reading. Genesis is fascinating, full of stories about how the Hebrew people...
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim | Jan 21, 2026 | Opinion
When I was 15 years old, my mother took my sister and me from our home in London, Ontario to Los Angeles to visit our aunt. To us, LA felt like a different universe. It was warm with a light, gentle breeze, endless beaches and loads of sunshine we didn’t have back...
by Michelle Wahila | Jan 15, 2026 | Opinion
We are now mid-January in what already feels like the longest year on record. News headlines from the first ten days of 2026 could make anyone weep— from renewed airstrikes in Syria to Iran’s bloody crackdown on dissent to Ukraine’s ongoing battlefields and widespread...
