by Craig Nash | Sep 24, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Editor’s Note: A version of the following appeared in the July/August issue of Nurturing Faith Journal (NFJ). Beginning in 2025, NFJ will become Good Faith Magazine and will be available for free to all Good Faith Advocates. Information on becoming a Good Faith...
by Craig Nash | Sep 18, 2024 | Faith and Democracy, Feature, Opinion
I will shoot straight with you: I don’t care too much about “saving democracy.” Don’t get me wrong. As a form of governance, democracy is the greatest system humans have devised to honor the will of the people. When functioning properly, it removes power from the...
by Kali Cawthon-Freels | Aug 26, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
As a child of evangelicalism, I know the textbook altar call like the back of my hand: “Do you know where you’re going when you die? Well, if you haven’t accepted Jesus as your lord and savior, you’ll end up in an eternity of suffering. You’ll be separated from God,...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 3, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
Many of today’s boldly proclaimed beliefs—masked as Christianity—are birthed through the narrow canal of fear. This exceeding high birth rate follows a pattern, a particular lineage. Cultural changes are the beaming grandparents out of which the offspring of fear is...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 5, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
It’s not a new idea: We reap what we sow. At least as old as the writing of Galatians 6:7, it is a timeless principle. When it comes to the relationship between hostile rhetoric and violent wrongdoings, the early apostle’s words provide a better perspective than...