by Carlye Gomes
…70,000 results in 0.68 seconds (I checked). Many well-meaning authors have compiled lists of programs you should create or incorporate to help yourself feel good about meeting someone bearing a different level of melanin. Yet in my experience, these types of programs are stiff, uncomfortable, and eventually unsuccessful. You and your congregation will benefit much more, and for much longer, from offering a once-weekly or even once-monthly course o…
God Loveth Adverbs: Teaching (and Living) “Christianly”
by Dave Mulder
…ly learning to bend my will more to the will of Christ, and this–I hope!--comes out in my teaching practice as well. I am grateful that I have the opportunity to continue to wrestle with these challenging questions along with you all! Marion D.+Van+Soelen Thanks for “stirring” the pot Dave! I like all the comments submitted by you and others and would add another. We continue to need Christian teachers in our government schools, however they are…
Is Consumerism Consuming Us?
by Howard Schaap
…means to be human. Like any distortion of humanity, “consumer” as metaphor comes with a host of bad side effects. We become dazzled by packaging, fixated on the glitzy glossy surface and misled about the true value of things. Many authors have written about how consumerism paradoxically does not result in a high value of material things—consumerism is not materialism. Rather, consumerism creates a kind of abstract relationship with things so that…
by Jonathan De Groot
…e medium is the message.” In other words, the manner in which we choose to communicate shapes us more than the content found within the medium. Today, our communication mediums are instant, convenient, and customized. If we want food, sex, money, or popularity, we have immediate pacifiers in fast food chains, convenience stores, Viagra, pornography, credit cards, instant loan centers, Facebook likes, and Twitter feeds. People used to journal; now…
by Neal DeRoo
…ook for when watching movies? Are there other creative outlets you would recommend, other than movies? Please post them in the comments. Yes, this is a thing, and it is not necessarily run by Christians. I have a friend who was in the film-making business a few years ago. I knew that he was not Christian, so I was surprised to hear him say he was working on a Christian movie. I asked him why he was doing that. His response? “Well, if you make some…
