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12/09/2024

Exploring Advent in a time of dangerous pregnancies, Angela Denker reflects on how pregnancy is both incredibly vulnerable and incredibly powerful.

“And Mary said, ‘My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant.

12/08/2024

For our first devotional on Advent in a time of dangerous pregnancies, Susan M. Shaw reflects on how John and Jesus’s births did not come without cost to the women who carried and bore them.

“In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David.” (Luke 1:26)

12/07/2024

Reflecting on Advent in a time of rulers clinging to power, Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons explores the connections between “Wicked” and the story of Christmas.

“But those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.” (Isaiah 40:31)

12/06/2024

Reflecting on Advent in a time of rulers clinging to power, Jeremy Fuzy explores the lessons we can learn from a true 20th-century ‘power broker.’

“God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to abolish things that are, so that no one might boast in the presence of God.

12/05/2024

For today’s issue of A Public Witness, Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood highlight 15 of their favorite books from the past year.

We hope you appreciate these suggestions on what you might read this holiday season or into the new year.

In 2013, Barnes & Noble abandoned its flagship store in Washington, D.C., a move that symbolized the retailer’s struggles to compete with Amazon.

12/05/2024

Reflecting on Advent in a time of rulers clinging to power, John Sianghio explores the key to understanding biblical leadership and leadership transition.

“For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders, and he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

12/04/2024

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary sometimes conveys his conservative Christian outlook in militaristic terms, has justified the medieval Crusades that pitted Christians against Muslims, and evokes the specter of Islamists seeking to impose their faith on non-Muslims.

He has denounced the military’s initiatives to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion, which include religion among other categories.

Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, said that President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary ‘promotes the concept of fundamentalist Christian dominance and supremacy.’

12/04/2024

Elon Musk may feel out of sync with his onetime nonreligious community, which has not taken the same rightward turn as he has.

Exit polls indicate that religiously unaffiliated voters were one of the only major groups that trended more liberal rather than more conservative in the November election.

Since becoming a Trump supporter, the tech billionaire has arrived at a new stage in his evolution from insisting science and religion cannot coexist.

12/04/2024

For today’s devotional entry, Karrie Gaspard-Hogewood considers how the pursuit of power is often accompanied by significant collateral damage — harm imposed on the most vulnerable communities among us.

“When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the Magi, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the Magi.” (Matthew 2:16)

12/04/2024

When Word&Way started in 1896, our predecessors created this publication with a press that would’ve had more in common with those of 16th-century printers in Belgium than with the process we use today.

During a trip to Belgium in May, I visited a printing press museum in Antwerp.

12/03/2024

Our latest book review from Bob Cornwall covers the complexities of Buddhism in America as explored in Nhi Yen Do Tran’s “Budding Lotus in the West: Buddhism from an Immigrant's Feminist Perspective” from Broadleaf Books.

In “Budding Lotus in the West: Buddhism From an Immigrant's Feminist Perspective,” author Nhi Yến Đỗ Trần unveils the complexities of Buddhist teachings woven into the American fabric.

12/03/2024

Reflecting on Advent in a time of rulers clinging to power, Beau Underwood explores how the proclamation that “Jesus is Lord” is still a radical statement today.

“Because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9-10)

12/03/2024

Today’s issue of A Public Witness looks at the unexpected revolution of the printed word and how journalism has changed since Word&Way started over 128 years ago.

During a trip to Belgium in May, I visited a printing press museum in Antwerp.

12/02/2024

Exploring Advent in a time of rulers clinging to power, Andrew Whitehead reflects on how Jesus taught us to reject the promise of earthly authority focused on only serving “us” at the expense of others.

“The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.

12/01/2024

For the first devotional exploring Advent in a time of rulers clinging to power, Brian Kaylor reflects on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro declaring Christmas in October to distract from his false election claims.

“Then Herod sent them to Bethlehem, saying, ‘Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me word so that I may also go and pay him homage.’” (Matthew 2:8)

11/29/2024

The church leaders and pastors beginning their work in Panama on Nov. 8 — two days after Trump, who campaigned on a platform that included mass deportations, had been declared the winner — was an experience of “grief.”

The trip, taken just days after President-elect Donald Trump won a second term in the U.S., brought 25 Latino Protestant leaders and pastors to Panama to help them understand the experiences of migrants who may later arrive in their communities.

11/28/2024

Don’t forget that our Unsettling Advent devotionals start on Sunday!

Get the free daily reflections delivered to your inbox each day during Advent. You can learn more and sign up here:

A few months ago, Miguel Maruyama lost his job and got evicted along with his 19-year-old special needs son.

11/27/2024

Check out our early Thanksgiving roundup featuring all the best religion news, analysis, and commentary from this week.

It’s turkey time, so we’re wrapping up the week a bit early.

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