The Joy of Choosing Relationship over Perfectionism (Every summer AFM trains and sends short-term cross-cultural workers (CCWs) to unreached people groups around the world. The report below is from Abby, an AFM short-term CCW who spent several weeks serving with Muslim children in the Middle East.) In the summer of 2023 I went to the […]
By The Rev. Brad Roderick, PhD Vice President of Academic Affairs & Director of the Stanway Institute for World Mission & Evangelism Trinity School for Ministry For the past four and a half years, I’ve had the joy of living an “AFM adjacent” life. My wife, Gretchen, serves as the Training Coordinator for AFM, and I […]
by the Rev. Tad de Bordenave It’s Easter. Again. How do I know? Because this Sunday, each and every church sign will say so. Yeah, you know. Same words once again, stating the obvious. And that’s swell if we want to remind those who already know. I started noticing these church signs years ago and asking […]
by the Rev. Tad de Bordenave Allow me the liberty of conflating the dialogue of the lawyer and Jesus with the parable of the Good Samaritan. That places the lawyer and the Samaritan side by side. I have written about the insights the lawyer gained from the Samaritan and his compassion. Here I take the […]
by the Rev. Tad de Bordenave The dialogue of Jesus and the lawyer came to an end with the telling of the Good Samaritan. It began with lawyer’s the opening question: What must I do to inherit eternal life? That question determined the course of the conversation. From then on, Jesus directed the conversation to […]
by the Rev. Tad de Bordenave When Jesus introduced the Samaritan in the parable, he introduced drama and ill will. This man was the foil who would illustrate lessons for the lawyer and for us. Before we look at him in the story, we first must understand the hostility of Jew and Samaritan. It began […]
