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The real kind of 'thoughts and prayers'

“Thoughts and prayers” has become a meme, a phrase to critique inaction in the face of gun violence and other evils. That is understandable and not at all unfair. It is indeed the go-to phrase — and the stopping point — for those who can make change but refuse to do so.

22 June 2022
Here I am
National Coordinator for Learning Initiatives, Center for Continuous Learning
17 June 2022
Rising Costs Got You Down?
Minister Council hosts two sessions to discuss Code of Ethics
10 June 2022
American Baptist Churches General Secretary Releases Statement on Clergy Abuse
10 June 2022
Apply for Security Grants Today
10 June 2022
A great multitude that no one could count: A targum of Revelation 7 and 20
9 June 2022
Apply Now: Chestnut Street Baptist Church Endowment Fund Grant Applications
I can’t go back home
Spending a year in the Women’s Lectionary
Down The Worship Planning Rabbit Hole
7 June 2022
America’s existential crisis
5 Excellent Worship Elements for Trinity Sunday
3 June 2022
A Pentecost experience with Italian
Editor, The Christian Citizen
2 June 2022
In the gun violence debate, let’s stop scapegoating mental illness
Are the winds of Pentecost calling you?
1 June 2022
This Pentecost, facing new challenges and a hope-filled future
Rev. Erica Van Brakle
Director, MinistrElife & ABPS, ABHMS
31 May 2022
Summertime Preaching Series
“I tried to let them know they were safe”
Deconstruction and self-doubt
25 May 2022
Vengeance personified: A review of “The Batman”
Editor, The Christian Citizen
25 May 2022
“And yet it goes on and on in this country of ours”
Flashes of resurrection, glimpses of heaven
Executive Director, ABHMS
20 May 2022
On the shooting in Laguna Woods, California
Why would a loving God allow…
A time to break silence
Executive Director, ABHMS
18 May 2022
On the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York
Director of the Center for Continuous Learning (CCL), ABHMS
17 May 2022
The Gift of Perplexity
16 May 2022
Bamboozled and hoodwinked
What Yom Hashoah teaches about the nature of forgiveness and forgetting
13 May 2022
The post-pandemic church: Moving from pipeline to platform for ministry
The effects of pandemic brain fog on mental health: God’s grace is sufficient
What to do if your ship is sinking
10 May 2022
We don’t talk about burnout: Family systems lessons for the church from Disney’s “Encanto”
20 April 2022
Guarding boundaries: Not a one-way street
National Coordinator, Evangelism & Church Planting, ABHMS and Regional Pastor With Congregations, ABCOPAD
19 April 2022
"Dashed Hope"
Wandering in the wilderness
18 April 2022
Seeking justice? Use consensus.
Editor, The Christian Citizen
17 April 2022
‘There is love. And love never fails.’
Editor, The Christian Citizen
15 April 2022
Supposing him to be the gardener
Beyond the cross
The nonsense of Easter
Easter dancing
11 April 2022
For such a time as this: The Holy Week journey
10 April 2022
New book on Baptist theology examines beliefs, practices, identity
8 April 2022
ABHMS Shares Video Labyrinths for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday
Director, Leadership Empowerment, ABHMS
7 April 2022
Pastor moves from parish-based to wilderness-based ministry
6 April 2022
American Baptist Home Mission Societies engages mission liaison for Afghan refugees
Gotcha-games and guessing-games
Editor, The Christian Citizen
5 April 2022
Americans with disabilities face unemployment and poverty rates twice the national average. Here’s how religious investors can help.

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