Make Place, Not War
The left. The right. Blue states. Red states. Placemaking doesn’t have to be tribal. It may actually be a necessary step for mending far-reaching wounds.
Issue 07
We Need to Talk About the Abuse of Power in the Church
You could fairly call it its own kind of epidemic. The abuse of power in the church. That’s what Diane Langberg’s new book, Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church is all about. She talked to Common Good in March. When we talk about power in the church, what are we discussing? The …
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Welcome to the Most Divisive Parish in America
When you think about Washington, D.C., you might imagine similar things: politics, culture, and a district filled with our nation’s history. What you probably don’t think about is Anglican churches, the kinds of churches that recall an older history, older at least than the monuments to church freedom that mainly decorate the capital. Yet, in …
This Is What a *Community* Church Looks Like
There are parts of Akron, Ohio, considered food deserts. There’s a lot of overlap between those parts and places you could also call health care deserts. No grocery stores or reasonable access to medical care. In one such neighborhood, after almost 20 years of ministry, pastor Joey Johnson sensed his church — a nondenominational church …
Thank God, the Virus Is Here to Stay
Despite our current or future efforts, viruses won’t go away. In fact, they’ll linger with us more intimately than most of us expect. Did you know that buried in our DNA are ancient viruses? At least 10 percent of our human genome represents sequences from viruses that have made their way into our DNA structures …
American Debt: The Big Story in Big Numbers
You hear a lot about debt, personal and national, but not a lot about plans to address it. Here’s the big picture(s).
Integral, Not Incidental
Most of life is pretty autobiographical. When we take the time to poke around a bit, asking a good question, and then another, we begin to hear more about who someone is, why someone is, and we begin to know more about the life that is theirs, of what has mattered to them and not …
Why Are a Million Women Leaving the Workforce?
Economists are calling it a “she-session.” In the past year and change, more than 2.3 million women have departed the traditional workforce. There’s an easy explanation: COVID-19. That’s part of the puzzle, of course, but like with most questions, the easy answer falls short.
Take a Peek at Sandra McCracken’s Songs of Summer
The songs that got the singer-songwriter through the dog days.
A Crisis Is No Time to Abandon Our Principles
Don’t forget the wisdom of supply-and-demand economics.