Mockingbird is a magazine/journal published in the USA. Each issue is thematic, with articles, poetry, illustrations, interviews, and a sermon transcript variously featuring. All themes are addressed from a perspective of grace, God’s grace and grace as living. Given that international postage is high buying them issue by issue is a bit prohibitive. Particularly when …
Tim Keller writes an essay premised on the concept that grievance is growing as the leveraging authority in contemporary culture. Grievance providing the capacity for superiority in relationships invites grievance to be held onto. If grievance is released, the capacity for its ability to control is let go. While there is an expectation of sorrow …
The aspects of church life that we think lack polish or strength can be the ways that God most clearly displays the work of Jesus within us, corporately and individually. From Jared Wilson: Brothers and sisters, we are a part of a kingdom that will demolish all pretenders and will fulfill in furious fashion the …
Vaneetha Rendall Risner has experienced loss and abandonment, which means her words about her experience of observing Christmas while heart-broken come from a place of personal experience and self-reflection. She writes at Desiring God: Yet for those who have experienced loss, the holidays often bring a sense of dread. I remember the cloud that hung …
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