Program Staff Adam Mixon, Mark Ramsay, Beth Daniel, and Adam Borneman speak about the current struggle of speaking into the prophetic/pastoral moment, the juggling act of faith and activism, and the importance of rooting ourselves in resurrection hope. Read Mark Ramsey's reflection here. Read Adam Mixon's reflection...
Proverbs 16:1-2 “To humans belong the plans of the heart, but from the Lord comes the proper answer of the tongue. All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the Lord.” Recently I read a prayer during my devotions that disturbed...
Forty years ago, one of us (we’ll leave it to you to identify her) taught juggling in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. From that experience comes the following counterintuitive lesson: juggling isn't a catching skill, it's a throwing skill. When beginners pick up juggling balls, they...
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...