The sky was just turning dark as I pulled up to the bridge where we were supposed to meet. As I turned off the engine and opened the door several heads peeked out from under the bridge. A parade of sorts began to meander over. We greeted each other as we do each time we [...]

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I dropped my kids off at school this morning and as I was walking back to my car, I overheard a mother sharing with another her worries about Christmas. With lay-offs and pay cuts abounding many families are growing anxious as the holidays approach. Rather than the sense [...]

The summer between my junior and senior year of high school I started playing in a band with three friends of mine. All of us were Christians. But we had no appetite for the Christian music we saw on Christian bookstore shelves. We listened to metal, hardcore and punk rock. We weren’t any good. Most [...]

Instead of pan-handling, Cynthia creates original, one-of-a-kind bookmark-sized original works of art from found items and sells them on the streets of Golden Hill to passers-by.

If you would have asked me five years ago what I imagined my family to look like, I would have said we would have four (maybe five) freckle-faced children with blonde hair, blue eyes, and preferably more boys than girls (oh, and they would all have very Irish names too like Finn, Sinead, you get [...]

The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity by Soong-Chan Rah, opens the door to hard conversations that we, as followers of Jesus, must no longer avoid.  Talking about race, reconciliation and idolatrous captivity of the church is uncomfortable but, if we are serious about redemption (both within and through the church), we [...]

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I sat up the other night and watched the preview for Google Wave. Like many people, I’m looking forward to trying it out. But as I watched, it dawned on me that the biggest attraction is it’s convenience. We love convenience. Convenience can be a good thing. But there [...]

Submitted by RJ Palmer.
There is a story behind every homeless face and it is a courtesy you give another to listen.
Being homeless, however, is more than a condition. It is a label which frightens some and arouses contempt in others. And seeming needy in any event is a good way to lose friends, especially with [...]

Written by James Pearson
Inspired by Matthew 23:23
You parse ancient scriptures with mathematical meticulousness; but you neglect to practice the Greatest Commandments, which Jesus said sum up the entire Law and Prophets: Love God with all that you are, and love your neighbor as yourself.
You should have committed yourselves wholly to the latter without neglecting the [...]

I’ve had a lot of time to think about economics lately. How as Christians we have a responsibility to help the least of these. Whether that is orphans in our communities, widows down the street, or the homeless on the margins of society. The questions of how to help the least of these becomes a [...]