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🌐 A Triumph of Love
January 09, 2026 Living & Loving in the Tension of Faith First time reading? Sign up here Essay A Triumph of Love My last essay, A Birthday (and Holiday) Lamentation, was a very personal exploration of some serious challenges in my life currently. It is a hard and sad post. Yet, there is hope. My wife, Pamela, two days after that article wrote what I thought was a beautiful post on Facebook: “Love Wins” is a real thing. And that saying that blood is thicker than water? Yeah, well, toss that...
🌎 Corporation for Public Broadcasting votes itself out of existence
January 09, 2026 Informing the Mind & Enriching the Soul First time reading? Sign up here IN THE NEWS Corporation for Public Broadcasting votes itself out of existence Leaders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private agency that has steered federal funding to PBS, NPR and hundreds of public television and radio stations across the country, voted Monday to dissolve the organization that... Pope Leo XIV convenes cardinals and signals reforms ahead now that the Holy Year is over...
🌐 Black Friday in Chicago: Even Simple Resistance Has a Receipt
January 09, 2026 Living & Loving in the Tension of Faith First time reading? Sign up here Essay Black Friday in Chicago: Even Simple Resistance Has a Receipt Eugene Peterson once observed, “We live in a culture that has replaced soul with self. This reduction turns people into either problems or consumers.” He warned that once this exchange is accepted, even politely and unconsciously, it begins to hollow us out from the inside, until we are no longer neighbors or fellow travelers. We become...
🌎 With limits on campus protests, quieter vigils are the growing voice of protest, Australian church attendance, Jesus loving NFL quarterbacks
January 09, 2026 Informing the Mind & Enriching the Soul First time reading? Sign up here IN THE NEWS With limits on campus protests, quieter vigils are the growing voice of protest Judith Lynn, who has lived close to Columbia University for two decades, marched beside pro-Palestinian students when campus protest against the war in Gaza erupted two years ago. “I was right there yelling with those beautiful students, but to see that squashed,” she said. “I’ve been finding ways to go beyond the...
🌐 A Birthday (and Holiday) Lamentation
January 09, 2026 Living & Loving in the Tension of Faith First time reading? Sign up here Essay A Birthday (and Holiday) Lamentation Today is my Birthday…Happy Birthday to me? I don’t feel very happy. It feels more like a time for lamentation than joy. I had a very different essay planned for this week but this subject is really top of mind for me. I know this isn’t the type of essay most people want to read, especially this time of year. Most, articles in mid-December are about joy. Some...
🌎 USAID cut their funding, so these faith groups got creative
January 09, 2026 Informing the Mind & Enriching the Soul First time reading? Sign up here IN THE NEWS USAID cut their funding, so these faith groups got creative The African country’s churches and affiliated NGOs are being forced to adapt after the withdrawal of long-standing funding from the United States Agency for International Development... Why is Christianity so hard to find in the Trump administration? As soon as he was nominated to be secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, with his...
🌎🌐🕊️ 2025 #1
2025 Top 10January 09, 2026 First time reading? Subscribe here! #1 Essay The Religious Narcissist: Sitting in the Pew and Quoting Scripture It seems like everyone knows a narcissist these days. It isn’t a term I really thought about a decade ago. After I left a teaching position with a corrupt president, I started hearing people refer to him as a Narcissist. I also have a... #1 News Use the Hallow app? You may want to reconsider Consumers shouldn’t be shamed for using helpful products, even...
🌎🌐🕊️ 2025 #2
2025 Annual Top 10January 09, 2026 First time reading? Subscribe here! #2 Essay A Christian Democrat? Here’s Why… You Can Vote Democratic I have seen a couple of interesting posts on this subject on Facebook. One was an article entitled “Christian Democrat?” on In All Things. The website is a Dordt College project, so the article has a very reformed leaning. But it is a good... #2 News Moody Radio’s format change draws mixed reactions from faith community Moody Radio will discontinue local...
🌎🌐🕊️ 2025 #3
2025 Top 10January 09, 2026 First time reading? Subscribe here! #3 Essay A Faith of My Own A few years ago, the NBC TV show The Office was all the rage. Despite it seeming like everyone I knew was watching it, I couldn’t. It wasn’t that I wasn’t invited to the watch parties or that I didn’t have access to it. Everyone else... #3 News Trinity Christian College to close after 66 years of service Trinity Christian College will permanently close at the end of the 2025–2026 academic year. The...
🌎🌐🕊️ 2025 #4
2025 Top 10January 09, 2026 First time reading? Subscribe here! #4 Essay When Law Looks Like Lawlessness, Who Do We Obey? Those of us who live in the United States have seen the state extend its power significantly over the past 30 years, and even more significantly so in terms of executive reach in the past 15. Since the advent of the PATRIOT Act nearly a... #4 News Legal proceedings begin for ex-youth pastor in assault case The indictment of Lindsey Whiteside, a 26-year-old former youth...
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