Category: Social Engagement
Rehashing Hash Tags, Part 3: Contemporary Expressions of Socialism in Social Justice
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third of a three-part series (click here for Part 1 and here for...
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Rehashing Hash Tags, PART 2: The Catholic Response to the Rise of Socialism
EDITOR’S NOTE: In the second of this three-part series, Dr. Brooks examines Catholic and...
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Rehashing Hash Tags: An Evangelical Approach to Social Justice – PART 1
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of three parts of a paper presented by Dr. Page Brooks at...
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The Death Penalty is Inconsistent with Evangelical Christianity – PART 2
EDITOR’S NOTE: In the first part of Dr. Brown’s article, he argued that the U.S. death...
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The Death Penalty is Inconsistent with Evangelical Christianity – PART 1
EDITOR’S NOTE: The death penalty, in some form, has been around for centuries in Western...
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Friendship in Exile
Yet how different is our vision compared to the ancient vision of friendship? We stand at the end of a long line of wise men and women who knew the value of friendship and prioritized it accordingly.
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The Beauty of Open Doors and Tables
The hundred or so men and a dozen or so women filed into the “dining room” at the Kino Border...
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National Suicide Awareness Month
September is National Suicide Awareness Month (also known as Suicide Prevention Month). While awareness is increasing, the numbers of suicide seem to continue to go up as well. What can you do to help?
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After Violence Against My New Orleans Church, It’s Time for Forgiveness
Our church and community were shaken last week with the random and senseless attack on two daycare...
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How Should Christians Respond to Public Accusations?
As Christians we are to “seek justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God” (Micah 6:8), but the intoxicating allure of instant judgment can sweep us into an upsetting fit that results in ill-informed witnesses to God’s justice.
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Love Is Not Just a Conjugation
What might the world be like if each of us made an effort to be swift to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger and respect the rights of others to think what they think? The call is not to agree with others necessarily or to believe what others believe but simply to learn about or from the other, understand the other, value the other and respect the other.
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Christ’s Invitation to Childlikeness
If we truly believe and take seriously the words of Jesus whom we call “the Christ,” then we, too, must see children not as “a stage of life” growing out of silliness into adulthood but a reality of living.
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