What started as taking baked goods to a strip club has evolved into a new ministry, The Ministry of Presence. And it’s awaiting your participation, no matter who you are, where you live or what kind of margins surround you.

Mindy Summers is an advocate for marginalized people groups facing various types of injustice and she will help you do the same, in your own way. Whether it’s sex workers, migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, Palestinian people, the unhoused or other vulnerable people near you, the margins are closer than you think. It’s time to get proximate so we can fight racism and systems of injustice with compassion and the restorative love of God.

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Your brokenness does not point to a deficit in who you are. It’s in those very places that God reveals the beauty of your story, which started when you were created good.

If you’ve ever asked the question “Is there something wrong with me?” or “Will I ever move past the pain to experience healing?” this conversation will give you the hope and tools you need to get unstuck from the patterns in your life and find healing that lasts.

Tori Hope Petersen is a leading advocate for foster care and a general lover of people. She will help you do the hard work of breaking the patterns that have broken you so you can see who you truly are - good, safe and loved.

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Grab Tori’s book “Breaking the Patterns that Break You” from our Becoming Church resource list on Amazon! (Your purchase will also send a few pennies to our tithe box.)

Watch Kristin’s message on Jeremiah 18, that will show you what God sees in a dried up, cracking, fragile, on the verge of breaking faith.

For more on being a disrupter - as a good thing - listen to Episode 55 with Cheryl Nembhard: Power in the Church.

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The foundation of the Christian faith is belief in a story. But what about the other stories that get tangled with Christianity? Everything from the big conspiracies of QAnon and End Times prophecies to pop culture claims of Taylor Swift and Wicked indoctrinating our children with witchcraft and evil. Unverifiable claims of stolen elections, hidden agendas and people in power who can control the weather are modern ideologies that pervade our current timeline. As Christians, how do we know who to believe and what’s true? How do we live in the world but not of it? When does belief in a story become holy paranoia? And how do we keep from getting sucked into it?

Theologian and ethicist Jared Stacy is here to help us understand why conspiracy theories are so prevalent among people of faith and why, as Christians, we need to pay attention to them. Let’s look at digital media and fact checking through a Christian lens.

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Read more of Jared’s work at The Homeward Dispatches and begin, or continue, your media literacy with Jeffrey Bilbro’s book Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News.

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