Editor’s note: This post is part of a series featuring outstanding excerpts from student papers at the BibleMesh Institute, which offers affordable online training for local churches, schools, and ministries. The author’s name has been withheld for privacy and security purposes. She is preparing the serve as a missionary in the Horn of Africa. The …
With demonstrations against racial injustice stretching into their third week, Christians are grappling with how to respond. Two courses from BibleMesh can help Christian leaders understand the American church’s historical connection to racism and the Bible’s antidote to racial injustice: The Color of Compromise featuring African American historian Jemar Tisby and Racial Harmony and the …
When the “barbarians” from the East stormed the gates of Rome in the fifth century, the great capital of the empire was shaken to the core. Ignoring more obvious reasons for the collapse (e.g., economic, military, and moral corruption), some leading citizens argued vociferously that Christianity was to blame for Rome’s demise: Rome fell because …
On Civil Government—Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430) Read More »
34 So Peter opened his mouth and said [to Cornelius]: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, 35 but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. Acts 10:34-35 (ESV) The last Jim Crow law[1] fell in 1965, when the U.S. Congress passed President Johnson’s Voting …
If you are like me, you are eager to return to in-person worship services. And if your church is like my church, you are weighing when, and how, your community can resume face-to-face meetings. Yet we do not want to rush the process and put our congregants, and wider society, at risk. That could overturn …
11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. 12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; …