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Is It Time We Reimagine the Conversation on Peace and Nonviolence?

Culture & Perspectives

Is It Time We Reimagine the Conversation on Peace and Nonviolence?

Every movement, every artist, every organization changes over time. Michael Jordan stopped dunking from the free-throw line and began perfecting his fadeaway jump shot. Bob Dylan spent the 1960s morphing from a folk prodigy to an… Read On

Published May 25, 2016

Making Peace Abroad

Culture & Perspectives

Making Peace Abroad

I grew up on the younger side of nine children on a farm near Mt. Joy, Pa. With nine children living under one roof, we argued often and occasionally fought. I’ll always remember when one of us would run crying because a sibling had hit us, my… Read On

Published May 25, 2016

Guns and City Streets

Culture & Perspectives

Guns and City Streets

For us at Harrisburg (Pa.) Brethren in Christ (HBIC), this is bigger than an academic discussion or political agenda. It is about stopping carnage. In the past five years, our congregation has lost eight sons, brothers, a nephew, and a young man… Read On

Published May 25, 2016

Meet Mike and Lori Cassel

Meet Mike and Lori Cassel

Mike and Lori Cassel first sensed the Lord calling them to missions work after Mike went on a short-term missions trip to Honduras in 1999. For the past 10 years, Mike and Lori served in Mexico, helping plant churches and ministering to the lost and… Read On

Published March 24, 2016

Q&A: Kate Vosburg

Q&A: Kate Vosburg

As a believer with a traditional view of marriage, what led you to LGBTQ ministry? About five years ago, one of our student leaders was hosting an event and two presidents of LGBTQ clubs happened upon it. This student was chatting with them and… Read On

Published November 11, 2015

Imagining a Church Full of Grace and Truth

Culture & Perspectives

Imagining a Church Full of Grace and Truth

Is it really possible to be a Church modeled after Jesus, who came to us from the Father “full of grace and truth” (John 1:14)? Throughout 2015, BIC U.S. National Director Alan Robinson and I have been imagining this high calling for the Church… Read On

Published November 9, 2015

Moving Toward the Vision

Moving Toward the Vision

In Acts 1:8, Jesus told his disciples that they were to be “witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” For Christ’s disciples today, “Jerusalem” refers to our local area—our people group… Read On

Published August 4, 2015

Rooted and Thriving

Rooted and Thriving

I grew up in the beautiful Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, and now I live in urban Philadelphia. As the daughter of a park ranger, my childhood playground was a 2,000-acre landscape of lakes, streams, forest, and fields that inspired me to… Read On

Published August 4, 2015

Documenting the Undocumented

Documenting the Undocumented

My mother put me in piano lessons when I was five years old. And though I learned sonatas and waltzes, Beethoven and Mozart, I was learning to play piano to serve the Lord. My mother has always been involved in every facet of church life, and so she… Read On

Published February 25, 2015