Yesterday's Supreme Court decision allowing the transgender military ban to go into effect is another reminder that the transgender community is under attack by the current administration. They are being painted as dangerous deviants whose very existence threatens our nation. How can Christians who are rooted in a theology of love, acceptance and hospitality respond to what is happening? How do we live out our faith as allies for the trans ...
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Some of you may not yet have had to spend several days in a row in a hospital or ICU waiting room praying and waiting and hoping that everything turns out alright for the person you love who has ended up in a hospital bed. I probably don't need to tell you that it's not fun...at all. It's exhausting and stressful and uncomfortable. It is distressing and disruptive. It can ...
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This song has a part in the Lessons and Carols service at First Pres Argenta every year as, for me, it captures who we are supposed to be as Christians (at Christmas and throughout the year). If we can't welcome those who don't believe exactly as we do to the table, then we are embarking on adventures in missing the point.
Read MoreI live in a neighborhood that gets besieged at Halloween. We have sidewalks and streetlights that provide the perfect trick-or-treat set-up. Not only do we have a lot of kids in our neighborhood, but people truck in (or mini-van in) to our neighborhood. We've never been able to buy enough candy to outlast the stream of trick-or-treaters. There are some neighbors who resent the intrusion, but our family loves the ...
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In Arkansas, HB1228 is about to hit our governor's desk to be signed in to law. Should he sign it, it would allow people and businesses to refuse to serve others based on "sincerely held religious beliefs." There are many things that I believe are wrong with this bill (it has a slope so slippery, you could slide from here to the gulf coast on it), but what is so surprising ...
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