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“Who is my neighbor?”

I was sitting with some friends at a coffee shop when a man behind me asked the woman next to him, “Can you do me a favor?”

“Depends,” she replied, “on what kind of favor.”

“Can you call 911 for me?”

“Um, uh, I…” she stammered.

10 April 2019
26 June 2019
4 things leaders do to prepare churches, institutions and organizations for a future beyond them
16 August 2019
A call to American Baptists
12 July 2019
A Christian response to anti-Semitism
26 August 2019
A man called Ove
3 May 2019
A new patriotism amid growing challenges and heightened emotions
25 July 2019
A Source of Courage
5 August 2019
A true peace plan will be known by its fruit
Abraham Lincoln’s letter to the American Baptist Home Mission Society
14 August 2019
All I am saying is give peace a chance
12 April 2019
American Baptist delegation visits Myanmar—an interview with A. Roy Medley, general secretary emeritus, American Baptist Churches USA
28 October 2019
An ode to a plastic urn: How a small trash can shapes beauty
Another News Feed test
11 April 2019
Apology and atonement, not politics as usual
Article 1
15 July 2019
Attend at your own risk: Welcoming the (food allergic) children in His name
1 May 2019
Authentically me and authentically you: Why religious liberty and LGBT rights are not so different
17 July 2019
Baptist World Alliance affirms women, decries religiously-motivated violence
27 September 2019
Be the calmest person in the room
24 May 2019
Blessed are the peacemakers, but what about the troublemakers?
7 June 2019
Breaking the silence of mental illness
15 April 2019
Can you let go?
character limit test
22 July 2019
Chasing equality—remembering the first moon landing while reclaiming the history that racism and sexism obscured
Clean water for Haiti: A partnership between First Baptist Church, Cadillac and First Baptist Church, Cap Haïtien
8 May 2019
Does your church suffer from RCS – Recreational Complaint Syndrome?
23 September 2019
Effectiveness, individual and communal
18 April 2019
Executive Order 9066: In the dark days of WWII, fear translates to injustice of internment for Japanese Americans
9 August 2019
Expressions of ethnic nationalism, pretensions to racial superiority have no place in Christ’s church
20 May 2019
Filters
27 November 2019
From classism to community: Consider the poor, forgotten this Thanksgiving
29 July 2019
From dwellers to seekers – understanding and engaging millennials for the present and future health of the church
19 August 2019
Give the king your justice, O God
18 October 2019
Giving mental health awareness the right place in the church
26 April 2019
Grace at the airport
1 July 2019
Having a mission in life
28 June 2019
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s “Reconstruction: America after the Civil War” (Review)
2 August 2019
Holding on to our Faith in God
4 November 2019
How to Be an Antiracist—A Prescription for Healing America (Book Review)
18 September 2019
Hurricane Maria’s Puerto Rico legacy transcends devastation, destruction
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19 September 2019
Is American Christianity oppressive? 
17 May 2019
Just when is the light supposed to break forth like the dawn?
17 April 2019
Learning from fiction
10 May 2019
Let us now praise famous (and not so famous) women
7 August 2019
Let us live the ‘The Birmingham Pledge’  
31 May 2019
Love your neighbor, learn their language
5 July 2019
Motorcycles, tribalism and America – What I learned riding in Rolling Thunder.
10 July 2019
No War With Iran Statement
15 November 2019
Of trees and thornbushes

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