Program Director Adam Borneman continues his conversation with Stephanie Spencer and Lisa Adams (40 Orchards) about the wisdom of Midrash, how "where" and "when" matters, and the importance of multiple perspectives in Bible study....
In a story often cited by Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King, Jr., Frederick Douglass once addressed an antislavery meeting at the very moment when the abolitionist movement had come under unusual strain. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 had emboldened slave catchers, returned many...
We promise that we won’t mimic a family member who takes a memorable trip and then insists on spending 2+ hours at Thanksgiving narrating a slide show while the turkey gets seriously over-cooked (of course, that’s just a hypothetical scenario). But … on our recent trip...
Program Director Adam Borneman speaks with Lisa Adams and Stephanie Spencer (40 Orchards) about the importance of asking questions over feeding answers, finding way on the inside and outside of religious institutions, and why reading Scripture in community matters....
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to...
The ongoing pain for so many in our culture today has led some to adapt the stock greeting “How are you doing?”/ “I’m fine” into something more honest, more vulnerable, more reflective of the moment. “Frankly, I don’t know how I am doing until I...
Program Director Adam Borneman continues his conversation with Terrence Smith (Kill Pride Club) and journalist Alex Allison about the harmful gap between the personal and the theoretical, how small actions build up over time, and appreciating the ways that Jesus complicates the narrative for us....
Over the past year, I’ve somewhat frequently returned to Ted Gioia’s “The Crisis of Seriousness.” Gioia laments, “Lifestyles are increasingly about pretending. Your real self stays in hiding, while your fake self gets presented in the most spectacular way on social media and other digital...
Where is the tipping point between doing faithful work on behalf of your church and thinking it all depends on you? Not just you individually, but your whole board? You don’t want to let your fellow congregants down and you certainly don’t want to let...