Culture & Perspectives

I live in a neighborhood that, to the world outside it, is virtually invisible. Places like my neighborhood in East Dayton are almost never depicted in TV shows or in movies — if they are, they are represented as alien places into which the protagonists enter with some peril…

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard…

In a current cultural climate fraught with racial tension and division, BIC pastor Tracie Hunter shares her insights and experience reaching across the divide to bring her community closer together. Having ministered for nearly 20 years in Cincinnati, Ohio, operating a Christian radio station…

In a current cultural climate fraught with racial tension and division, BIC pastor Hank Johnson shares his insights and experience reaching across the divide to bring his community closer together. “I think it is one of the tragedies of our nation, one of the shameful tragedies…

In a current cultural climate fraught with racial tension and division, BIC pastor Josh Crain shares his insights and experience reaching across the divide to bring his community closer together. Here at The Meeting House, we are convinced that the Church has a critical role to play in the ongoing racial divide within the United States…

In a current cultural climate fraught with racial tension and division, BIC pastor Kurt Willems shares his insights and experience reaching across the divide to bring his community closer together. At Pangea, we strive to be “a church that follows in the way of Jesus…

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 electric-guitar-wielding hipster genius. Apple discontinued the Newton and poured their energy into developing products people actually wanted to buy…

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…

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 just beginning to attend HBIC—all murdered in cold blood…

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 as we’ve facilitated the Impact Seminar…

Finding out what we’re enslaved to can be hard. Recently, I’ve been reflecting on how entertainment has held me in bondage. I doubt that I’m alone in this. I think many of us find ourselves just wanting to zone out, heat up some leftovers…