Reprinted from The Chalmers Center. From the very beginning, the content from When Helping Hurts helped shape how we handled our operations. Christy Chermak, Executive Director, Watermark Health When a patient walks through the doors of a Watermark Health clinic in Dallas, TX, they will be warmly greeted with a smile. Often, that smile is Julie’s. By all appearances, when Julie began volunteering at…
By Pam Tinsley, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. On November 1 the Church celebrates the Feast of All Saints’. On All Saints’ we remember all the saints – past, present, and yet-to-come – and well-known and revered saints with a capital S, as well as lesser-known saints. Saints with a capital S include apostles, such as Peter and Paul; the…
By David Gill, reprinted from The 313. Bruce Feiler is the author of thirteen books including Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths (2005), America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story (2009), Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses (2014), and The First Love Story: A Journey Through the Tangled Lives of Adam and Eve (2018). This is worth noting…
By David Williamson. A friend who is a prosthetics surgeon is now in Ukraine providing prosthetics for people who have lost body parts as a result of war. He is doing important, exceptional work as a believer in Jesus. He has reminded me that Jesus made the lame and the blind a major part of his work. He promoted the…
By Sophie Sanders, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. Upon retirement, many of us face major questions about identity and purpose. It’s exciting – a season of opportunity, possibility, and exploration. But it can also be daunting, disorientating, and depressing. Now that I’m retired, who am I? Who might I become? And what will I do? The good…
By Christ John Otto; Reprinted from the newsletter of the Belonging House ministry where it forms part of a series on the core tenets of Belonging House. I will become more aware of Christ in me, the hope of glory. If you are an artist for the Kingdom, you are called to make the Word flesh. That’s more than something…
Reprinted from the Oikonomia Network. Karam Forum 2022 continued our tradition of hearing from people doing the work of bringing life to the world in the cities where we meet. In Denver, we were grateful to our friends at the Denver Institute for Faith and Work for providing a rich exploration of how two graduates of their fellows program are…
Reprinted from the Chalmers Center. Bryant Myers, a leading Christian development thinker, argues in Walking with the Poor: Principles and Practices of Transformational Development that in order to effectively address material poverty, we need to consider the fundamental nature of reality, starting with our triune God as the Creator of that reality. God, eternally existing as three-in-one, is inherently relational, and as…
By Pam Tinsley, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. As the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi approaches with its beloved – and joyful – tradition of the Blessing of the Animals, this year I’m particularly struck by St. Francis’s relationship to Creation Care. Thanks to Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, Creation Care is one of the three priorities of the Episcopal…
By David Gill, reprinted from The 313. Celeste Headlee is an award-winning journalist and professional speaker. Her TEDx talk on ten ways to have better conversations had more than twenty million views as of the writing of Do Nothing in 2020. In her more than twenty-year career in public radio, Celeste has anchored NPR’s Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. I…
