by Good Faith Media | Sep 26, 2023 | Feature-, News
The newest book on the shelf at Good Faith Media’s bookstore offers resources for personal and communal worship. Worship Anew in Babylon, by Doug Bryan, was created with the hope of providing encouragement, insight and discussion as we learn to live, even prosper and...
by Colin Harris | Jan 6, 2021 | Opinion
The events and themes of the biblical testimony of the pilgrimage of the covenant people provide us not only with landmarks that accent the church year, but also with metaphors that can be applied to the journey of faith, both personally and collectively. Famine,...
by Colin Harris | Aug 26, 2020 | Opinion
The title of Thomas Wolfe’s novel, “You Can’t Go Home Again,” has become a popular aphorism for the reality of change on many levels of human experience. It joins the ancient words of Heraclitus, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same...
by Richard Wilson | Apr 17, 2020 | Opinion
Exile is a powerful concept in the Hebrew Bible. In addition, it turns out to be transformative as Christianity emerges half-a-millennium later. Life in Judah and Jerusalem in the 590s and 580s BCE changed dramatically. The proactive invasion of Jerusalem by the...
by Colin Harris | Nov 4, 2019 | Opinion
“Exile” is a very negative word, conjuring up images of forced deportation and political banishment. Even in the milder forms of some traditions’ practice of “shunning” those who have misbehaved, a kind of social and psychological exile alienates one from the...