PUBLISHED: by Brad Lyons “Ugh,” said my minister friend of the apostle Paul, “he is awful. Such a misogynist, such a homophobe, such a racist. I can’t even read his stuff. Paul was a jerk.”[1] It’s hard to argue with...
PUBLISHED: by Deborah Arca "There is no standard route in grief. As the wisest grievers I know have told me, 'There is nowhere you can be but in it.'" -- J. Dana Trent Whether you're in the midst of...
PUBLISHED: by Brad Lyons Social media – well, maybe not your social media, but certainly my social media – has seen a lot of chatter this week about recent statements by a male leader in the Southern Baptist Convention questioning the denomination’s...
As a single dad to three awesome kids running a small nonprofit publishing house who could use a little balance in my life, prayer often slips through the cracks. I try hard to find time to center my mind each...
PUBLISHED: by Brad Lyons You're loading the dishwasher, and you hear a pair of feet shuffling up behind you. “Hey cutiebug,” you say over your shoulder, “what’s up?” “I have a question,” your child responds. Then everything stops as she...
We often read to escape the aspects of life that worry us: discrimination, greed, conflict, and so on. But we all know the maxim about the two things we can’t escape. Dana Trent takes on the darker one – death, not taxes[1]–...
PUBLISHED: by Brad Lyons For more than a century, this publishing house has been a ministry of what is now known as the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). As a mainline denomination, Disciples have experienced sweeping change not just in the...
PUBLISHED: by Brad Lyons It’s tricky for any publisher, let alone a Christian publisher, to take on the political issue of guns. Forgiveness, on the other hand, seems like a no-brainer. Those two concepts meet in For Such a Time as...
PUBLISHED: by Krista Schaeffer Sustaining Hope in an Unjust World, the new book for the weary activist on how to keep going when you want to give up, is available now at ChalicePress.com. We caught up with Timothy Murphy to find out...
