Although I am resigning in protest, I am not bitter or angry. I am disappointed, of course, but I have gone through a discerning process.
Editorial
Power-over is coercive, controlling, and manipulative. Power-with is collaborative and authoritative.
How do these two things connect?
Like the psalmists of old, I have been lamenting lately, honestly sharing my griefs, fears, and frustrations with God. Allow me to share some of them with you.
Psychologists suggest that empathy is crucial in helping people who are struggling. Can we truly love our neighbor as ourselves if we do not have some level of empathy?
Bible scholars say the phrase “knowing good and evil” in Genesis 3 is a Jewish merism. It is an idiomatic Hebrew way of saying, “the potential to unlimited knowledge.”