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What is the sense of our small effort?

Dorothy Day, the great Catholic activist, is someone I have been thinking about lately as our country’s turmoil persists and people’s sense of hope wanes. 

Editor, The Christian Citizen
3 July 2019
14 May 2020
What is this time doing to you?
National Coordinator, Evangelism & Church Planting, ABHMS and Regional Pastor With Congregations, ABCOPAD
19 October 2020
What kind of discipleSHIP is your church doing?
National Coordinator for Learning Initiatives, Center for Continuous Learning
7 December 2021
What shall we magnify?
Editor, The Christian Citizen
26 May 2020
What teaching Baptist history during the pandemic taught me: Our tradition offers the tools we need for the present moment
23 June 2020
What the eyes of the heart see
What to do if your ship is sinking
Editor, The Christian Citizen
18 March 2021
What was Jesus doing during Lent?
21 October 2019
What we don’t talk about
What Yom Hashoah teaches about the nature of forgiveness and forgetting
Editor, The Christian Citizen
9 September 2020
What’s in a name?
National Coordinator for Learning Initiatives, Center for Continuous Learning
22 February 2023
What’s speaking to you now?
When does life begin? Reckoning with surprising answers in Scripture
When hope looks like the night sky
When I knew my time as youth minister was over
Executive Director, ABHMS
31 July 2019
When is prayer not enough?       
25 September 2019
When nothing helps—faith and doubt amid unbearable loss
When Stillness Becomes a Radical Action
Editor, The Christian Citizen
11 January 2021
Where do we go from here? A response to the attack on the Capitol
Where is the love?
Who are the visionaries?
Editor, The Christian Citizen
2 October 2019
Why I am an American Baptist—A testimony and a hope
15 November 2024
Why pastors should know how much people give
National Coordinator for Learning Initiatives, Center for Continuous Learning
8 November 2023
Why Sabbatical? Last call for online Webinar - Nov 9, 2023
1 December 2020
Why we light those candles
Why would a loving God allow…
Editor, The Christian Citizen
8 June 2020
Why Would Jesus Social Distance – WWJ(S)D
Editor, The Christian Citizen
30 October 2019
Why wouldn’t God wake a sleeping cat?
Wisdom Calls
Editor, The Christian Citizen
5 October 2020
Wisdom seeks a third way: The congregational dimension of Christian citizenship
With a change in perspective, a new, more modest, standard of living is possible
Editor, The Christian Citizen
27 October 2020
With anxieties on the rise during election season, faith communities can help
Director of the Center for Continuous Learning (CCL), ABHMS
9 June 2023
With Great Challenges Come Great Opportunities
With more resources than ever for communication and connection, we have an epidemic of loneliness. Why?
Executive Director, ABHMS
23 March 2021
Witness for the Lord
8 March 2022
Women Mayors: Breaking glass ceilings and being cut by the shards
Executive Director, ABHMS
6 April 2021
Word and Witness United
Editor, The Christian Citizen
4 October 2019
World Communion Sunday celebrates oneness in Christ
28 September 2022
World Communion Sunday: rekindle the gift of God
Yemen Needs Good Neighbors
Yes to “New,” no to “Normal”
Rev. Erica Van Brakle
MinistrElife Director of Membership, Content, and Usage
12 June 2020
You Are Not Alone: A Space For Grace Retreat to be made Available On Demand on MinistrElife
Zombie Jesus vs. resurrected Jesus
14 October 2020
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