Sola gratia, Sola fide, sola scriptura, solus christus (grace alone, faith alone, Scripture alone, Christ alone). In these four soli Martin Luther summarized his Reformation.
It’s always an instructional moment for a pastor when she finds herself confronted with a Bible passage she’s afraid to preach. This happened to me a few months ago.
In 2008 i was a first-time voter and watched the election unfold from Brazil. As a newcomer to this political action and fresh off of reading Shane Claiborne’s Jesus for President, I had a lot of questions.
Ancient cave drawings illustrate that artistic expression is endemic to humanity. And throughout history, artists have pushed boundaries and come into conflict with their communities.
The saying that history doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes, applies to Mennonite Central Committee this year.
You’re not alone, I’m with you, I’m lonely too
Once, on a hike I discovered a single sandhill plum hanging beside the trail, tiny and ripe with some kind of meaning, nature’s haiku.
I write this several weeks before a presidential election that will determine the leader of a country more polarized than I have seen it in my thirty-some years of living.
Three. that is the number of times I have been baptized. One could say I took this Anabaptist thing a little too literally.
