By Paige Wiley, reprinted from Made to Flourish. This year, graduation came and went, and the world’s new normal has yet to be established. For those who graduated during more “precedented” times, there were plenty of graduation ceremonies, parties, and caps and gowns to go around. But this year is different, in more ways than one. Normally, students would be…
By Lisa Slayton; part four of a series. Reprinted from The Wholeness Journey. Last fall my husband and I took a wonderful trip to central Italy. After a few days in Bologna, we headed to Florence and Tuscany. On our way, we detoured slightly to stop at the Ferrari and Lamborghini factories. These stops included the opportunity for us to drive a…
By Fletcher Lowe, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. You may have heard the story of a recent conversation between the Devil and God. Gleefully the devil says, “Well, God, looks like I have beat you this time. My virus has shut down all your churches just as I planned.” God replies, “You are correct that the church buildings are closed…
By Darren Lim, reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. One of the things our team at work have been doing recently to maintain some sort of social connection and to enable some of the newer members of our team to get to know one another is something called coffee roulette. Basically you’re paired up with another member of…
By Lisa Slayton; part three of a series. Reprinted from The Wholeness Journey. In the fall of 1983, I bought my first new car. It was a red 1984 Toyota Corolla. It was a five-speed and it was zippy. By now my ability to handle a clutch was pretty good. But this new one still took a bit of time to become…
By David Gill, reprinted from The 313. Workers On Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America by Joe William Trotter, Jr.(University of California, 2019) Joe William Trotter, Jr., is distinguished professor of history at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Workers on Arrival is a superb, meticulously researched account of the contributions and challenges of black workers throughout American history. The focus here is not all…
By Lisa Slayton; part two of a series. Reprinted from The Wholeness Journey. I upgraded my driving skills, less grinding and more stability, but stayed with a VW and, for a brief season in the early 1980s, drove an orange beetle that I loved. That poor car withstood a couple of wild years with me, but sadly succumbed to a bad roll…
By Brandon Seitzler, reprinted from the Oikonomia Network. Five nouns, which we call our Graduate Profile, drive our teaching at Criswell College: Ambassador, Cultivator, Peacemaker, Problem-Solver and Professional. When students walk across the stage on graduation day, we intend that they will be these five things. We introduced our new Graduate Profile this academic year as a promise to our…
By Lisa Slayton; part one of a series. Reprinted from The Wholeness Journey. I learned to drive a stick shift in 1976 in a light blue 1969 Volkswagen Beetle. For anyone who remembers learning to drive a four- or five-speed, you know that sound that occurs when the gears grind. It is a bad sound, kind of sets your teeth on edge.…
Reprinted from the Chalmers Center; also see the Chalmers Center’s statement on racial injustice and call to prayer and lament. So what is the church supposed to do about racial injustice? Many responses to this cultural moment have emphasized that racism (and injustice in society, more generally) is ultimately a spiritual problem, so the church’s response should be to focus on…
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