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The Great Barrier Reef is dying for green grace. The earth cries out for justice.
This year, my wife and I celebrated 20 years of marriage, with a trip to the Great Barrier Reef. Long, lazy days, snorkeling on the reef, soaking up the sun, cruising at sunset, massages by the pool, and eating fruit platters on Whitehaven Beach. The Great Barrier...
Women are the heartbeat of living faith
Women are, and always have been, the heartbeat of living faith. Diana Butler Bass used that phrase in a recent interview, and I really love it. Women are at the center of Christian faith, discipleship, worship, ministry, theology, community, and mission....
GlobalChurch nominated for IVP Readers’ Choice Award!
Hi friends, I've received news that my new book, GlobalChurch, is a finalist for a Readers’ Choice Award! Thanks to all who voted in the first round and got it to this final stage Would you consider taking 10 seconds now and voting for the book to win the award?...
A review of Healing Our Broken Humanity (Reviewed by Ngwedla Paul Msiza, President, Baptist World Alliance)
Review of “Healing Our Broken Humanity” by Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Graham Hill Reviewed by Ngwedla Paul Msiza (President, Baptist World Alliance) People like me who were born and raised in a country like South Africa – where racism, nationalism, and misogyny...
It’s Time to Stop Organizing All White Male Panels and Conferences
Here’s a question that plagues me: If we are truly the church of Jesus Christ, why are we excluding so many groups from meaningful contribution? I can’t tell you how often I look at a conference and panel line up and think, “Where are the women speakers?...
Is our faith too Western? And how can World Christianity shape our faith?
Is our faith too Western? And how can World Christianity shape our faith? What would an expansive and diverse and global approach to faith and theology and mission look like? In GlobalChurch, I invite the church to wrestle with these questions. Mark Noll makes a...
Unless we care for the planet, we can’t make disciples or be missional
We have poisoned the earth God gave us. We have ignored the command God gave us to nurture and protect and care for the planet. A recent study released in the journal Science says we are eating away at our own life support systems, at a rate unseen in the past 10,000...
It’s time church and society treated women and girls with dignity
Today is the UN International Day of the Girl Child. The goal is to see the world’s 1.1 billion girls experience a full life, including gender equality and opportunities to use all their gifts and talents. Close to half the world’s population experience sexism, gender...
9 ways to amplify the voices & honor the gifts of women
See also "6 ways to empower and release more female leaders" A female Christian friend recently asked me to watch a TED talk with Alaa Murabit. I was moved by the talk, and struck by how similar Alaa’s experience is to many Christian women. Alaa Murabit is a young...
I’m broken and so are you, but there’s One who offers hope for a new and full life (Colossians 1:15–23)
If you’re like me, you’re probably aware of your own brokenness. I’ve chased after things that I shouldn’t have, which, even when I reached them, left me feeling unfulfilled. And I’ve treated people in ways that I’m ashamed of. As I approach my fifties, I’m acutely...
7 Inspiring Women: Julia Baird
In this series of posts, we’re looking at 7 inspiring women – passionate, courageous, prophetic women, who inspire us to think deeply, act courageously, embrace others, and bring hope to the world. Dr Julia Baird is both an outstanding scholar and public intellectual,...
Engaging Politics as Christians
As I write this, many of us are keenly watching the US Presidential race. The personalities are colorful, the contest is fierce, and much is at stake. In my own country, Australia, we've had 4 Prime Ministers in the last 4 years! I grew up in a household that didn’t...
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