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Faith in Action
The ministry of cartooning
Steve Thomason faced a massive blank canvas, his back to the congregation, and opened his arms wide, lifted his head and prayed. He was preparing to accept whatever God wanted…
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Go looking for the word
Peter Mayer’s new album Passages (Little Flock Music) showcases his poetic approach to faith-based songwriting. It also features his accomplished guitar playing—Mayer has been lead guitarist in Jimmy Buffett’s Coral…
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In Ad Astra, God’s work is on Earth
In the opening scene of Ad Astra, astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) scales an antennalike tower that reaches into Earth’s upper atmosphere. With the cosmos above him and our planet…
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Gender justice in the Bible
Katey Zeh thought she knew the stories in Scripture—and she did, but mainly those about men. When she started combing through the Bible looking specifically for women, named or unnamed,…
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Worship around the table
Kendall Vanderslice has a background in professional baking, food studies and theology. In her new book We Will Feast: Rethinking Dinner, Worship, and the Community of God (Eerdmans), she weaves…
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A boundary-breaking God
Debbie Blue’s new book Consider the Women: A Provocative Guide to Three Matriarchs of the Bible (Eerdmans) offers readers an expansive invitation to think more deeply about the lives of…
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Revolutionary relationships
Rozella Haydée White’s new book Love Big: The Power of Revolutionary Relationships to Heal the World provides an invitation into deeper relationships with God, ourselves and the people around us….
Faith in Action
Faith on the stage
Mark Erson’s complex and innovative ministry can best be understood by a single photo he took in Edinburgh, Scotland, during a visit to the city’s famed artistic Festival Fringe. It’s…
Faith in Action
Parenting with grace and justice
There are so many parenting books available—but as people of faith, we want to be intentional about the messages we espouse. Cindy Wang Brandt writes from her home in Taiwan…
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Shaped by stories
Perhaps you’ve recently found yourself consuming news reports coming out of Washington, D.C.; Syria; London; or Venezuela and asking, “Has there ever been an era more loudly crying out for…
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Our need to create and be created
Christie Purifoy’s new book Placemaker: Cultivating Places of Comfort, Beauty, and Peace (Zondervan, 2019) invites us to notice the world around us and to create opportunities to share the gifts…
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Reaching out and reaching in
Occasionally an author’s published work finds its way to a curiously broad demographic of readers—at once appealing to multiple generations, a truly ecumenical palette of Christian traditions, and people with…
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