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Shauna Niequist has apologized for failing to speak out after her father, Bill Hybels, the founding pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, was accused of decades of sexual misconduct.
“So what are you, exactly?” I’m asked that often. When people see my dark-black and curly hair, my somewhat “almond-shaped” eyes, my pale skin with a
February 19, 2021 I did not have a word for it until my senior year of college. Looking back, I can see it started before then, in cycles and seasons when I described myself as “down,” “in a funk,” “struggling,” “low.” My friend talked me into seeing a counselor at our college’s health center, and there I was given the word: depression. It felt foreign at first, as if this couldn’t be me, couldn’t be this thing I was feeling. But it had been so long since I felt emotionally steady, emotionally “up,” that I didn’t remember what normal felt like anymore. I no longer...
ONLINE: Chandra Crane press release: Upper House hosts Chandra Crane and the launch of her book: Mixed Blessing: Embracing the Fullness of Your Multiethnic Identity. Crane will share her personal and professional experience, stories, and the questions people of mixed heritage contend with, followed by a multiethnic community panel. Chandra Crane understands first-hand the complexity of multiethnic existence. In her first book, Mixed Blessing: Embracing the Fullness of Your Multiethnic Identity (InterVarsity Press, 2020), she brings the multiethnic experience into clearer foc...
Common grace February 2021 We live in a fallen world. But God’s common grace means the world is not as loveless, ugly and chaotic as it could be. The Bible teaches that God restrains evil so that God’s creation may be preserved, ordered lives can continue and ultimately that God may be glorified and the Gospel preached to all nations. This briefing looks at this important and often neglected doctrine. 2 Grudem, W, 3 ‘Common Grace and the End of the World’, Justin Taylor: The Gospel Coalition, 15 February 2012, see https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/common-grace-...