McKinney Religion News
Who Controls Our Theological Narrative?
by Reinder Bruinsma | 15 January 2025 | Church authority is a complicated topic. Is it primarily about administrative oversight and personnel management, financial issues, the upkeep of buildings and denominational strategies? Or is theology the most...
Ner Shalom Teens, Young Adults Keep Neighbors Warm This Winter
Members of the Ner Shalom community knit, crochet and sew warm clothing items for their unhoused neighbors. Courtesy of Congregation Ner Shalom. In the days before 2020, a group of parents and grandparents would bring their knitting needles, hang out and craft...
Local Leaders React to Cease-fire Deal Between Israel and Hamas
An IDF team in Gaza in 2024 (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit photographer) Local Jewish community leaders expressed hope and gratitude in response to the news of a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas. The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington released a...
How Can Christians Shine in a World Overwhelmed by Natural Disaster
With the world facing natural disasters, the church should be willing to be a beacon of light amid times of turmoil and despair. At the time of this writing, we still have the wildfires that have been blazing throughout various parts of Los Angeles since last...
Rare Inscribed Ivory Comb Artifact Coming to Southern Adventist University on Loan for Only U.S. Viewing
15 January 2025| The following is a press release: In partnership with the Israel Antiquities Authority and The Israel Museum, Southern Adventist University invites the public to see the ivory comb with the oldest deciphered complete alphabetic sentence in...
Russell Brand Under Fire for Advocating ‘New Ways’ of Understanding Scripture
Actor and comedian Russell Brand stirred up controversy on social media this week after he posted a clip of himself suggesting that we must have "new" ways of understanding Scripture. "Now that we are tethered potentially to continual self, we are going to have...
Notes on Mark: The Mustard Seed
MARK 4:30-32 We are all familiar with this because we have heard so many comments on its meaning for us today. But how about what the Jews of Jesus' time would have thought when they heard it? Barclay elucidates. There are in this parable two pictures which...
Cat Sleeping
Cornelis Visscher, Cat Sleeping, 1657 Don't miss the charming little creature right behind the sleeping cat. Source link #Cat #Sleeping
Village Church Demands Reinstatement of Ron Kelly in Official Statement
14 January 2025| The Village SDA Church released an official response during their January 11th service, regarding the Michigan Conference’s removal of their Lead Pastor Ron Kelly, and Elder Conrad Vine. 20 of the 21 elders gathered on the rostrum to: “reject...
Broken Trust: My strange and disturbing summer at Adventist summer camp
by Carlos J. Gonzalez | 14 January 2025 | I’m a native of Brooklyn, New York. I loved my city while growing up there—and I still do. The salsa and beat-heavy music, and the air of innocence on DeKalb Avenue, were a utopia for me. But for my mother, things...
Author Lainey Steadman
