By Sue Smith Meetings with Pastor John Gallegos and leaders of Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana de LaBelle rarely take place inside a church office. Instead, conversations happen outside under a…
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By Sue Smith It was Ramadan, and the women in the Strengthening Families group spoke quietly about what they missed. Ramadan is the holiest month in Islam, a season of…
By Carson Foushee Beginning in 1995, a national poll has helped to select the kanji (Chinese character) that best describes the year that was in Japan. A grand public announcement…
By Jonathan Bailey The gamelan instruments gleamed in the December sunlight as we set up on the church’s front veranda. After nearly three decades in Bali, I had spent countless…
By Kristen Thomason On Sunday mornings, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel Laura and Carson Foushee, along with their two young children, do something out of the ordinary: They attend church….
By Grayson Hester Father Richard Rohr could have used a seemingly infinite number of metaphors to describe the Trinity—a courtroom, a competition, marriage, you name it. What he chose was…
By Grayson Hester The Body of Christ, broken for you, need not be a loaf of bread or even a gluten-free cracker. Sometimes, the most nourishing, the most eucharistic manifestation…
Por Grayson Hester El Cuerpo de Cristo, partido por ti, no tiene por qué ser una barra de pan ni siquiera una galleta sin gluten. A veces, la manifestación más…
By Matt Norman When I sat in a room with 15 pastors, church leaders and theological educators in Sofia, Bulgaria this September, I realized again why this work matters so…
By Renée Owen For the past 40 years, The Network on Ministry in Specialized Settings (“COMISS”) has been hosting Spiritual Care Week as a national, and now international, movement to…