Seeing Our National Past Rightly
America has a false national narrative. In the Southern California schools I attended in the 1990s we were taught these foundational concept: America as the melting pot (to describe our diversity) ...
Pursuing Unity
The past few years within the United States has been especially challenging for the ministry of unity. Nationally we’ve experienced significant changes from our previous era of consensus. Changes in: *Politics...
And Who is My Enemy?
by Alexei Laushkin It’s common place for Christians to reflect on the question of how we are supposed to love our neighbor, after all, who is my neighbor is a question...
So, How Do you Seek First the Kingdom of God?
By Alexei Laushkin Our lives are governed by desires and wants, goals and plans, and if we were to think about them we would soon recognize that for most of us...
Living with Difference Closer to Home
by Alexei Laushkin How does God ask us to handle differences in how we relate to one another in the body of Christ? Many Mainline Protestant, Evangelical, and Pentecostal denominations feel...
The 12 Days of Christmas Help Us Orient Towards Peace
by Alexei Laushkin For Christians that follow a liturgical calendar within the Western tradition, Christmas marks the start of a 12-day celebration of the events around the birth of Jesus. Christmas...
Faith Leaders: On the Final Farm Bill
KMS has continued to speak out about the Farm Bill throughout its journey in Congress. On June 21 the House narrowly passed a version of the bill that proposed unprecedented, harmful...
House Narrowly Passes Unprecedented Bad Farm Bill
Today June 21, the House narrowly passed H.R. 213-211. You can check how your member voted here. This legislation covers a wide range of farm policy, but also the Supplemental Nutrition...
Faith Leaders: We Need to End Family Separation at the Border
Cover Photo: Detention center in McCallen, Texas (Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Patrol/EPA-EFE) U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently directed the Justice Department to enforce a “zero tolerance policy” at the...
Faith Leaders: Drastic Cuts to SNAP Harms Americans Trying to Get Ahead
On April 12th 2018, Chairman Michael Conaway (TX-11) released H.R. 2 the Agricultural and Nutrition Act of 2018. This legislation covers a wide range of farm policy, but also the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program...
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