By Demi Prentiss, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. Oct 28, 2023, Pope Francis preached in the Casa Santa Marta, where he celebrates daily mass. He urged the church to be a place of open doors, and not of people who seek to control the faith. He called for broadened expectations of how we might recognize saints among us: We need…
By David Gill, reprinted from The 313. Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2023 for her research on the history of women in the labor market. Her most recent book, Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity (2021), summarizes her findings. An economic historian and labor economist, Goldin is the author…
By David Williamson. One of our favorite half-day ventures is the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, a short distance from our home. We enjoy it throughout the year, in full growth at the middle of summer, a brilliant array of colors in the autumn, with blooming and flowering trees in spring, and even picturesque (there are firs) in the winter.…
By Paul Woolley, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. So God created mankind in his own image,in the image of God he created them;male and female he created them.God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in…
Reprinted from the Oikonomia Network. How can we really, effectively, place the gospel within the larger context of who God is and his plan for all things? God’s unfolding mission of redemption in history is grounded in his eternal plan, which in turn is grounded in his own triune nature – three persons loving one another forever with holy love.…
Reprinted from the Chalmers Center. At the turn of the new year, many of us make plans. We might want to do more and do better, or we might want to do less and be more intentional in what we pursue. In life and ministry, setting goals and resolving to move forward with renewed vigor can be a good thing,…
By Demi Prentiss, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. I’ve been thinking a lot about vocation during these weeks of Advent, and the season has shifted my sense of how I’m seeking to live into the call God has placed on my life. What is my Advent vocation? And how does that shape my life as a “child of God, beloved…
By David Gill, reprinted from The 313. Mr. Rogers and his television “neighborhood” have “classic” and even “iconic” status for many of us. If we personally missed it in its heyday, surely our kids would have watched it, perhaps even every day. When children are exposed so often to violence and uncivil behavior in cartoons and other media—to say nothing…
By David Williamson. I’m old enough to remember the motto “dress for success.” Recently, reading in Colossians about the clothing a person “puts on” as one of “God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with…..” (Colossians 3:12) reminded me of an article about a baseball player who was traded to the Yankees. A huge change in self-concept came to…
By Jo Swinney, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, ‘Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.’ And it was so. God called the dry…
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