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Sep 19, 2023 | 
medium.com | Joann Lee
Introduction The Rise of Influencer Marketing In today's digital age, the landscape of marketing has undergone a major transformation. Traditional advertising methods, such as newspaper ads and phone banking, are no longer as effective as they once were, and businesses are constantly looking for innovative ways to engage with their target audience. One such strategy that has gained immense popularity is influencer marketing.
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Jul 20, 2023 | 
christiancentury.org | Luke A. Powery |Melissa Florer-Bixler |Joann Lee |Libby Howe
Becoming Human is a small book that proffers a big push. Many books on America’s racialized past and present, even those written for the church, are sociological, psychological, or political rather than theological in their analyses and remedies. The White-dominated church is rightly presented as a collaborator and baptizer of White supremacy, but the church (and by implication, God) is the problem rather than part of the solution.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
christiancentury.org | Melissa Florer-Bixler |Joann Lee |Libby Howe |Philip Jenkins
Alicia T. Crosby (she/her/hers) is a justice educator, activist, and minister whose work addresses the spiritual, systemic, and interpersonal harm people experience. Alicia helps individuals, communities, and institutions explore and unpack topics related to identity, justice, journey, and intersectional equity.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
christiancentury.org | Melissa Florer-Bixler |Joann Lee |Libby Howe |Philip Jenkins
“All creation groans.” Paul’s phrase has been ringing in my ears lately. I go back to Romans 8 and read of “creation’s futility” and Paul’s call away from a life in the flesh to a life in the Spirit. I can see why so many have read those words and thought we need to escape the want of our bodies, escape the constant pulls for power. “Let’s simply desire the love of God,” some might say, as though God’s love is a spiritual getaway.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
christiancentury.org | Melissa Florer-Bixler |Joann Lee |Libby Howe |Philip Jenkins
Dozens of Christian groups seeking to instill faith in the nation’s children have been given grants of as much as $1.25 million to help them meet their mission.
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Jul 18, 2023 | 
christiancentury.org | Melissa Florer-Bixler |Joann Lee |Libby Howe |Philip Jenkins
After more than 20 years, I still exchange lines from Wes Anderson’s first film Bottle Rocket (1996) like a private code with some of my closest friends. My husband and I have taught our children to make the bird cry the main characters use as a signal in their heist schemes (“ca-caw, ca-caw”) so we can find each other in crowded spaces.
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Jul 18, 2023 | 
christiancentury.org | Joann Lee |Peter W. Marty |Valerie Weaver-Zercher |Libby Howe
In December, a leak was detected in a section of the Keystone Pipeline located near the Kansas-Nebraska border. Eventually, 588,000 gallons of toxic tar sands oil—almost an Olympic swimming pool’s worth—spilled into Kansas’s Mill Creek and onto surrounding farmland. It was the largest oil spill in the pipeline’s 13-year history—larger than the previous 22 spills combined. And it could have been prevented. Read our latest issue or browse back issues.
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Jul 17, 2023 | 
christiancentury.org | Joann Lee |Peter W. Marty |Valerie Weaver-Zercher |Libby Howe
Six college students are preparing to move into new apartments in a former office building at Redeemer Episcopal Church in Jacksonville, Florida, after the church and its ecumenical partners converted the building to living space in response to a local housing shortage. The project was spearheaded by Jacksonville Campus Ministry, a partnership of congregations from seven denominations, including Redeemer.
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Jul 17, 2023 | 
christiancentury.org | Joann Lee |Peter W. Marty |Valerie Weaver-Zercher |Libby Howe
“Who hopes for what is seen?” asks Paul. Me. I do. I did, anyway. I expressed my hope with the same clichés everyone else did. I reached for something hope-related whenever the subject of a conversation was unpalatable and I did not want to bring anyone down with real life. “Don’t let it bother you too much,” I would say. Why? Because “there’s always hope, right?” It was what I said whenever I didn’t want to become encumbered by the overwhelming injustices and tragedies of our world.
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Jul 14, 2023 | 
christiancentury.org | Peter W. Marty |Libby Howe |Valerie Weaver-Zercher |Joann Lee
Our house came with a chicken coop, complete with a fenced-in chicken run. We were used to cats: after the one we had for 16 years died, we loaded up with four more. Four cats is a lot, but that didn’t prepare us for chickens. Our roofer, an animal lover himself, gifted us with six chickens: two Ameraucanas, two Plymouth Rocks, and two Rhode Island Reds.
