The Mission of Brown Jesus
She sat in the middle of the crowd of about 100 students at a distinguished Christian university in Southern California. Following my keynote remarks titled “The Gospel and the Politics of Race,” she raised her hand sheepishly and asked the ten million dollar...
Annual Event Theme Reflection
Theme reflection by Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity from A Sanctified Art LLC “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few” (Luke 10:1). Jesus commissions seventy followers with these words, inviting them to be peace-bearers in new lands. Perhaps we might utter a...Getting Outside the Box: Discipleship Through Retreat, Mission & Justice Ministries
Theme reflection by Theresa Cho Depending on what translation you read, Luke 10:1–11 is either titled “The Sending of the Seventy” or “the Seventy-Two”—leaving many commentaries to refer to this passage as “. . . Seventy(-Two).” The parentheses are significant because...
Getting Outside the Box: Discipleship Through Retreat, Mission, & Justice Ministries
Annual Event Theme reflection by John Bell I am constantly bemused by the word retreat because it has two distinct meanings which are predicated on the preposition which follows it. We can either retreat from or retreat for. In the course of a year, I...IDEAS
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