Dialogue
Listening with Charity: A Conversation with Patrick Mason
Some beginning of the year encouragement from a lively conversation with historian Patrick Mason.
Jacob Z. Hess
January 4, 2023
Some beginning of the year encouragement from a lively conversation with historian Patrick Mason.
Our inclination in a conflicted America is to see any significant difference as a potential threat. The New Testament can remind us not to overlook the value of competing views on even the most important question of all.
Proposing a New Year’s Resolution better than “Don’t Gaslight.”
Do we really need to be saved? That’s a question we’re hearing from more and more people. And it’s an important one to take seriously as we enter a brand new year.
What can we learn from people who find deeper and more lasting healing from depression? A whole lot, it turns out. Introducing an in-depth examination of themes across stories of sustainable healing from depression.
Even with so much suffering around us, I rejoice to have witnessed much suffering tangibly relieved by real-life, creative ministries to the poor. What more is still possible?
A Christmas present from our team to the many who are grieving the loss of a loved one this holiday season. May you rejoice to know what is coming and feel peace at what is already here.
All the boundary talk in America today can clearly do some good. Are there some unintended effects it also might be having on family relationships?
Would we be willing to give up our ideas this Christmas? Or is it too hard to believe in a God that asks hard things of us—unpopular things and countercultural things?
Is there a dollar amount of donations to the poor sufficient to allay concerns about how the faith spends its money?
We don’t often speak of the short period when Jesus was an unborn baby Himself. Maybe we should?
