Marisa Mender-Franklin dreamed of growing flowers and opening her own flower shop, but there was one problem: she had no land.
So she turned to her neighbors in Memphis, Tennessee, and now she's transformed crowdsourced land into urban flower farms.
9 Lies I Was Taught As An Evangelical:
1. C.S. Lewis was an Evangelical and his theological views would be compatible a right-wing conservative American Evangelical fundamentalist literalist worldview.
Nope.
It is not the number of years we exist as an organization that measures our success or God's faithfulness. It is our commitment to Christ and the task he has given us. Whether we exist 50 years or 1 year or even less.
For hundreds of years, Jewish people have been the victims of horrific violence. That historic backdrop of pain and trauma does not justify the crushing apartheid policies they’ve imposed on Gaza and the West Bank for over 50 years… but it does help explain it.
For decades the Palestinians have endured daily doses of terror, discrimination and abuse from the State of Israel. That does not by any means justify the violence of Hamas… but it does help explain it.
The current violence of both Hamas and the State of Israel create the conditions for more violence, adding fuel to an already combustible fire.
For many people the evil we are seeing daily by both the State of Israel and Hamas makes more killing justifiable. But violence only leads to more violence. Hatred begets more hatred. We cannot build a better future by killing each other’s families.
Jesus was right - if we live by the sword we die by the sword. Violence is a dead end. Love is the only way forward, even the audacious love for our enemies.
Love requires treating the person on the other side of the wall as nothing short of sacred, a child of God made in the image of God.
Killing babies is terrorism, whether it is done with bombs or with guns or knives - it is evil. Violence is always evil, no matter what flag it’s wrapped up in. Let us continue to work for peace… and do all we can to interrupt the war… and grieve every life lost… and commit ourselves to building a world where every person is sacred.
Our favorite planet has now seen 20 days in a row breaking the modern-day record high-temperature of 16.924°C (62.46°F) set on July 24, 2022.
This global heatwave is likely the hottest 20-day stretch in the last 100,000+ years.
The Bible is primarily written in community, and it’s meant to be read in community. This is the pattern found in Scripture itself, and helps us to overcome our blind spots.
As modern people, we need help understanding the Bible as…
i’m 23 and i’ve reached financial freedom and the secret is to liquidate your assets.
i don’t let my money just sit in my bank acc i turn them into liquid forms every single day. below are some examples
There is value whenpeople tweet or report kung naramdaman ba nila ang lindol.
Minsan, mas mabilis pa ang internets kaysa sa seismic waves (lalo na kung malalim ang pinangalingan).
https://t.co/MPbHPGvI70
“Do not turn your face away from anyone who is poor” (Tb 4:7). Whenever we encounter a poor person, we cannot look away, for that would prevent us from encountering the face of the Lord Jesus.
https://t.co/vW14rkYGhl
LOOK: Baristas Josiah Reyes, 26 years old, and Ian de Ocampo, 27 years old, display their mobile espresso bar business at the Philippine Coffee Expo in the World Trade Center in Pasay City on Saturday, June 3.
Reyes and Ocampo started their pandemic business in 2021 by installing coffee maker machines in their family van and selling coffee products in businesses, bakeshops and NGO events around Quezon City.
📷: Juan Carlo de Vela | #ManilaBulletin