The Intersection of Faith and Culture
It’s 1996, I’m 16 years old. My haircut’s faded, my jeans are baggy, and my down filled jacket is big enough to fit me along with two more friends. Slouching in my chair at the back of the classroom was my standard swag for Wednesday night youth meeting. As a […]
When I lived in New York, it was so hard to choose. Out of the countless different things the city offered, I could never decide where to eat, what to do, who to see. Since moving back to my home country — Myanmar — I have seen how the majority […]
When everything else seems lost under a winter puree of mud and slush, get lost in our collection of happy-go-lucky tunes from a warmer time and place. Let these warm-up beats ease you out of your soggy chilly doldrums, and help you avoid the fact that summer is still 114 days […]
Lately, I have found myself in conversations with friends about relationships and commitment. I’ve heard them say, “We will be together as long as it works and if it stops working, then it will end.” There seems to be a distrust and even a suspicion of marriage. These are friends […]
Ryan Bell has a Master of Divinity and a Doctor of Ministry in Missional Leadership. He went to Fuller Theological Seminary, and was a Seventh-Day Adventist pastor for nearly two decades. And as of January, he’s living a year without God. And he’s blogging about it. In March 2013, Bell […]
Should I, or shouldn’t I? It was a question I constantly asked myself during an extended season of tension with my church community. And as time ticked away, the tug in my spirit became stronger. Though I had made progress with individuals at my church, despite various shortcomings on both […]
