Each summer for the last four years, a community on the outskirts of Soacha, Colombia, has gathered to watch its children play in their own, local version of the World Cup — a soccer tournament for peace.
My congregation, Waterloo-Kitchener United Mennonite Church, has changed from a membership of 380 in the 1950s to an attendance of 35 nowadays.
The incarnation. Advent is a celebration of the incarnation, of God who became human flesh in Jesus Christ.
Contemplation has been described to me as a long, loving look at the real. In my spiritual-direction training, I get to do a good bit of this.
Growing up in a Christian -family in Indonesia, a Muslim-majority country, I didn’t often see Christmas decorations except in church.
Is your church inclusive? Does it hold high expectations for its people? Is it possible to do both? Mark D. -Baker argues that it is.