Month: September 2016
Our Story Is for All Ages by Tammie Grimm
September 10, 2016
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must…
Outsiders & Underdogs: Interview with Tom Fuerst
September 8, 2016
Advent reminds us that Christmas is not a sentimental, consumerist, family-friendly holiday, but is a season of radical political subversion, the downfall of the mighty, and an upturning of the hierarchies of the world. Seeing Christmas in fresh perspective begins with participating in the biblical narrative of God’s preferential option for the poor, forgotten, and imperfect.
Why Can’t We Just Be Humanitarians? by Elizabeth Glass Turner
September 7, 2016
The brilliance of the World Methodist Conference is still shifting through my mind, light through a suncatcher hanging on a…
The Global Neighborhood: World Methodist Conference by Elizabeth Glass Turner
September 5, 2016
What neighborhood, out of all the ones you’ve lived in, has been your favorite? Was it a quiet small town…
Lead Like Jesus by Otis T. McMillan
September 1, 2016
Are you content to have unfulfilled needs in your life? Most of us aren’t. We want enough for today, plus extra stored away for the future. Yet our longing for more than enough is often limited to what we can see and touch. Jesus told us that these things would never satisfy. He taught that only God can fulfill our most important needs, giving us a sense of security, identity, significance, and purpose.