LifeWay Pastors When Legacy Becomes a Lie When I resigned from my full-time teaching job last semester, I didn’t realize all the feelings that would accompany the transition. I definitely didn’t realize how much of my identity I’d placed in my role as a professor. Russ Meek October 31, 2019
For the Church The Bible Told Us Every Girl Was Sour? The theological problem with purity culture and how we talk about the plague of pornography is that it sexualizes women (and men, though I think to a lesser extent). Russ Meek October 30, 2019
Fathom The Sins of Our Fathers Lenny was absolutely convinced there was some ontological difference between humans with pale pigmentation and those with dark. Russ Meek October 23, 2019
Facts & Trends 3 Reasons Church Leaders Should Observe the Sabbath God, the creator of the entire universe and everything in it, rested and was refreshed. I could stop right here; we don’t need any more reasons to take a Sabbath. Friend, you and me and everyone else on the planet needs to be refreshed. God modeled the way for us. Russ Meek October 21, 2019
Servants of Grace Fostering Hospitality We both knew that we wanted to foster and/or adopt children long before we met each other and were married ten years ago. Neither of us knew just how much it would stretch and strengthen our ability to be hospitable, to love our neighbors as ourselves. Russ Meek October 21, 2019
Sojourners Racism, Sexism, and A Lust For Power in the Southern Baptist Church Has our history of political maneuvering cloaked a love for power in the language of right theology? Russ Meek October 18, 2019
Servants of Grace Pastoral Care in the Digital Age If you are struggling with digital communication, I encourage you to see it not as drudgery but rather as an opportunity to extend just a little bit of God’s grace and love to those you’re emailing or tweeting with. Russ Meek October 7, 2019
Facts & Trends 3 Reason Our Churches Need the Old Testament All my dark thoughts and feelings found expression in this collection of poems and prayers by God’s people for God’s people. If there are people like me in your church—and there probably are—then they need the Old Testament like I did. Russ Meek October 1, 2019
Servants of Grace I Opposed Him to His Face As we engage believers in the digital world, where it is quite easy to spew vitriol over minor differences, let’s make sure that we major on the majors and minor on the minors. Russ Meek September 30, 2019
Fathom Magazine Break the Teeth in Their Mouths, O God If you have found yourself in the church—or anywhere else—looking for solace, comfort, and relief from abuse, then may you turn to the imprecatory psalms and find comfort there. Russ Meek September 22, 2019
