by Stefani McDade | Nov 15, 2016 | relate & connect
Having with a loved one who suffers from a disorder can be confusing and painful, but medical labels don’t grant us permission to lean away from intimacy. When my sister was first diagnosed, I started seeing her differently—and over time, I began to treat...
by Stefani McDade | Oct 7, 2016 | faith & kingdom
The Church has always struggled with the temptation to share an ideological framework with the secular world. And yet history has shown, time and time again, that Christians do everything but thrive when they entwine themselves with the world’s political, social...
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by Stefani McDade | Sep 15, 2016 | faith & kingdom
The Church in North America has long been a house divided against itself. We have sustained so many breaks in fellowship over small matters that we now find ourselves incapable of uniting over big issues that truly matter. That is the consequence for our past sins of...
by Stefani McDade | Aug 5, 2016 | faith & kingdom
When Constantine became the first “Christian” ruler in 300 AD, the world was introduced to a new reality that we have since embraced as normal. This alternate reality is called “Christendom” – which literally means the “Kingdom of Christians,” and must not be confused...
by Stefani McDade | Jul 13, 2016 | society & culture
How Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster inadvertently dealt a fatal blow to the postmodern ideal… In college, I wrote and submitted a paper to a writing conference entitled, “Tokens of Absence and Presence: Discussing Truth and Reality in Light of the Movie...
