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A few ways we sabotage our own ability to love our neighbors. Sometimes, when we hear the command to “love your neighbor,” we interpret that to simply mean we shouldn’t actively hate our neighbors. But loving your neighbor is a positive, rather than a negative statement. Galatians’ restatement of the Golden Rule tells us toContinue reading “5 Things That Keep Us From Loving Others”

I. Around the World Things I found on long walks in foreign cities, or perhaps when someone posted them on Twitter. One Man’s Long Ride Across the Americas from Calgary to Brazil — An epic, two-year journey on horseback The Literary Salon in a Brooklyn Bar — When next in NYC, have a drink and…Continue reading “6 Discoveries from Near and Far: Volume XIX”

When you discourage seminary, young church leaders miss out on at least one important thing: history. Throughout the last year of my life, I have had the privilege of sitting down with female evangelical seminarians to ask them one simple question: why are you here? These opportunities emerged out of my doctoral research, which investigatedContinue reading “What Post-Seminary Evangelicalism is Missing: A guest post by Sharon Hodde Miller”

When you discourage seminary, young church leaders miss out on at least one important thing: history. Throughout the last year of my life, I have had the privilege of sitting down with female evangelical seminarians to ask them one simple question: why are you here? These opportunities emerged out of my doctoral research, which investigatedContinue reading “What Post-Seminary Evangelicalism is Missing: A guest post by Sharon Hodde Miller”

The Chipettes are a barely remembered ’80s offshoot of Alvin and the Chipmunks, but a video of their adventures somehow made its way to this young toddler and it is quite the emotional roller coaster for her tender heart. Her dad, Travis Lupher, videoed her getting very understandably choked up over the plight of aContinue reading “Toddler Understandably Overwhelmed by Emotional Cartoon”

A 31-year-old pastor in Florida has set a new Guinness World Record for the Longest Speech Marathon ever made by preaching a single sermon for 53 hours and 18 minutes. The epic message—which started in Genesis and ended in Revelation—was heard by hundreds of people, who showed up in groups of 10 throughout the two-and-a-halfContinue reading “A Pastor Just Set a New World Record By Preaching for 53 Hours”

You can disbelieve in God, never go to church, and still identify as “evangelical” in most polls. But if you’re black and evangelical, you literally don’t count. The Assemblies of God, one of America’s largest and fastest-growing denominations, celebrated its 100th birthday this year. Almost all of its growth has come from ethnic minorities, whoContinue reading “News: Segregated Surveys: How Politics Keeps Evangelicals White”

Significant changes to American immigration policy could be made before the end of the year. According to a new report from Fox News based on an unnamed White House source, President Obama will unveil his “10-part plan for overhauling U.S. immigration policy via executive action,” possibly by next week. Along with measures like increasing payContinue reading “Report: President Obama Will Release New Immigration Overhual Plan”

What behavioral economics has to do with scary statistics. Surely by the time Elijah wandered off into the desert to die, he would have been a hard guy to discourage. He had stood up to some of the most memorable (and pathetic) murderers in the Bible, survived a long famine, and sacrificed alone as aContinue reading “A Survey Can Make You Less Moral”

How the fear of being ‘basic’ relates to ordinary Christian faithfulness. Last week, Rebekah Lyons opened the second Q Women conference by addressing calling—a popular topic lately among evangelical women. In the midst of discussing the prompting of the Holy Spirit and the discernment of our gifts, Lyons confessed her sense of restlessness with day-to-dayContinue reading “Sorry for Getting Excited to Shop at Target”