By: Kristin Hamilton on May 31, 2018
As someone who has prayed for the healing of my daughter for years, reading Jackie Pullinger’s Chasing the Dragon was bittersweet. I love stories of miraculous healing and lives lived in a deep faith that seems like insanity or naiveté to others. Pullinger tells such a story and it is breath-taking. With a boldness few…
By: Jennifer Dean-Hill on May 31, 2018
Faith, innovation, and grit are the key leadership character traits aptly used to describe Jackie Pullinger’s ministry in the Walled City of Hong Kong. Purposefully and passionately, she pursued the vision God placed on her heart about being a missionary. Faith – “the hope of things unseen…”[1] Her faith was remarkable as she relied on…
By: Stu Cocanougher on May 31, 2018
Kowloon Walled City Inseparable from the history of Hong Kong was a former Chinese military fort turned densely populated settlement known as Kowloon Walled City. Britain was given possession of Hong Kong Island in 1842 in the aftermath of First Opium War. In 1898, after the Second Opium War, Hong Kong signed a 99-year lease…
By: Katy Drage Lines on May 31, 2018
Living among people in a non-Western setting, I learned early on that I couldn’t (or at least shouldn’t) put God in a box. That is, as we mature in our faith, we understand more about God and the way God works, but when we begin to pattern our expectations in order to “make” God work…
By: Jim Sabella on May 31, 2018
Jackie Pullinger is one of those rare individuals who has done something more than just pray. Jackie has put her faith into action by following the voice of God that she sensed was leading her to Hong Kong, the Walled City. There she was faced with the most significant needs of this earth, humans who…
By: Lynda Gittens on May 30, 2018
Walled City, an area in Hong Kong, infested with gangs, drugs, prostitution, crime, and more. Author Ryan Graudin wrote a book on The Walled City. She told the story of individuals experiences in Walled City. The first story under Jin Lin, she stated that “there were three rules…
By: Mary Walker on May 30, 2018
And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the leastof them, you did it to Me. (Matthew 25:40) We have spent nearly two years in our Leadership and…
By: Katy Drage Lines on May 29, 2018
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By: Christal Jenkins Tanks on May 26, 2018
The other day I was doing work around the house and watching Hulu. I stumbled upon an episode of the new Rosanne show. Now I am aware of the controversial nature of her individual political beliefs and support our current president. That aside, the show is being used as a vehicle to shed light on…
By: Kristin Hamilton on May 25, 2018
In his book, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, Jonathan Haidt recounts his seemingly sudden rush of patriotism that overcame him directly after 9/11. According to Haidt, a self-described liberal professor at UVA, this was incredibly foreign to him, and felt like a bit of a betrayal to his…
By: Chip Stapleton on May 25, 2018
I was the kind of strange kid that, while I was never a fan of homework, particularly concerned with grades or a ‘teacher’s pet’, I might actually pay attention when my 9th grade English teacher talked in serious tones about how important Ayn Rand is and how essential Atlas Shrugged and especially The Fountainhead were to understanding, not…
By: Katy Drage Lines on May 24, 2018
While some of my friends are packing their favorite YA novel into a beach bag, I spent this week being sucked into Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind, and devouring the entire book. Not necessarily the best idea, if one wants to reflect critically and comparatively. But entering this book, I realized I didn’t want to…
By: Lynda Gittens on May 24, 2018
Author Haidt’s statement, ” We’re born to be righteous, but we have to learn what, exactly, people like us should be righteous about” (13) took me to the Christian view on ‘Righteous’. David said in Psalms 51:5, “Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.” The Book of…
By: Stu Cocanougher on May 24, 2018
CHALLENGE: Read through each item on this list. After each statement, decide if Jimmy’s action is morally wrong: Jimmy Burned an American Flag. Jimmy is a vegan and ate bacon today. Jimmy has two wives. Jimmy worships the sun god, Ra. Jimmy is a Muslim. Jimmy is a Jew. Jimmy killed a rat. Jimmy…
By: Jim Sabella on May 24, 2018
Haidt asks THE question of our time. Why are good people divided by politics and religion? Here are some of my thoughts. I have many European friends who say politics and religion have the same purpose, they both want to control the individual. From their perspective, they want nothing to do with either. They want…
By: Mary Walker on May 24, 2018
We’re born to be righteous, but we have to learn what, exactly, people like us should be righteous about. Jonathan Haidt To be “righteous” means our minds, our wills, and our behaviors will be conformed to God’s will. It means holiness, goodness, love, justice, and good works. …
By: Jennifer Dean-Hill on May 23, 2018
In reading the Righteous Mind, there were several quotes that spoke about the impact of developing a balanced mind, that would contribute to living a peaceful life. “Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it’s very difficult to empathize across a moral divide.”[1]The big divide we are experiencing in the church today is the division…
By: Stu Cocanougher on May 20, 2018
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By: Chip Stapleton on May 20, 2018
ed. note: the above (and below) picture/quotes are found at the beginning of ‘part 2: the Solution’ When I saw the name of the book we were assigned for this week, I have to admit that I actually laughed out loud. Nothing against William Bridges, and his book, Managing Transitions, but as one of…
By: Lynda Gittens on May 19, 2018
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