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Courtesy of Robert F. Cochran Jr. I live in a very secular town and for 40 years have been part of America’s very secular legal academy. During that time, I also have been an evangelical and active in evangelical churches. I travel pretty comfortably in both circles, but at times I am puzzled by the reactions of each group to different issues. Most recently, I have been trying to understand their differing responses to Covid and abortion. Many evangelicals are pro-life on abortion, not on Co...

Adapted from Chapter One, “Wounds” For several decades Southern black folks carrying suitcases full of prized possessions fled poverty and threats of lynching to pursue the elusive dream of a better life in Northern cities like Boston. By the early 1960s, turbulence and race uprisings plagued much of the country yet bypassed Boston. The city had a self-congratulatory air because its predominantly African American community of Roxbury exercised restraint while other cities burned. Everything...

By Cathy Lynn Grossman | Lifeway Women Revives In-Person Live Events Series Lifeway Women Live, after a pandemic year of virtual events, has set April, August and September for three in-person events. These will star an array of renowned Bible teachers and bestselling Christian authors from Lifeway and B&H Publishing speaking under the banner of “Pursuing Christ Together.” Women are hungry to study, laugh and cry together in person, said Betsy Langmade, manager of Lifeway Women ...

Good outcomes do not lead to excellence; excellence leads to good outcomes. We need to reward excellence. We can’t always control the outcomes of our work, but we can control the effort we put forth and celebrate those who work with diligence. Excellence is not about winning; it’s about producing the best result we are capable of achieving. A commitment to excellence simply means that we will strive to do our very best and expect the same of others. This leads to a culture that rewards effo...

In practice, self-care can be one more thing to do with no time to do it.

Tyndale House Publishers has released Les Misérables: An Engaging Visual Journey, the second in the Visual Journey series that began with Hinds’ Feet in High Places: An Engaging Visual Journey in fall 2017. The inaugural book has sold over 50,000 copies, selling more copies in the last year than in its first year, according to the publisher. Les Misérables: An Engaging Visual Journey, abridged by Jim and Terri Kraus, is Victor Hugo’s story of compassion, forgiveness, justice, and the wi...

Thoughts on Adventist Higher Education — Part 1 Written by:  The most important question Adventist Higher Education can ask is, “What should be our primary definition of success?”[1] Everything depends on the answer. There are many different responses that Adventist colleges and universities could give: Enrollment Percent who get jobs in their major after graduation Percent who go on to get advanced degrees Student/teacher ratios Number of scholarships and subsidies provided Number of p...

What does the Bible say about hate? Hate is the sinful opposition to that love. It is the driving force behind much of the wicked action people take.

For Charles Spurgeon, the celebrated 19th-century preacher, depression was more than just circumstantial. When he spoke of it in his sermons and lectures, his examples, which were often rooted in his own experience, included a significant form of depression: the kind that comes without cause. In one sermon, he said, You may be surrounded with all the comforts of life and yet be in wretchedness more gloomy than death if the spirits are depressed. You may have no outward cause whatever for sorrow...

Heather L. Hart Out of Place: Christian community in 1 Peter and James The green outline of his face was a caricature, the name inaccurate. Yet, we didn’t think twice about our school mascot, we were the “Indians.” We cheered his image at games and emblazoned his likeness on yearbooks. It was years later before I heard an Indigenous American Christian speak about her heartbreak at this type of appropriation of tribal culture. I was left reconsidering my perspective and my assumptions. How...