by Steve Hedrick | Jun 10, 2024 | Presence Weekly
Increasingly, The United States no longer holds Christian ideals as foundational or even beneficial. Christianity is no longer in a place of cultural ‘power.’ That can make many of us feel weak, and therefore insecure.Scene from “The Last Stop in Yuma...
by Steve Hedrick | Jun 9, 2024 | Podcast
Michael talks with scholar, author, and Faithful Presence board member, Dr. Randy Newman, about his most recent book, “Questioning Faith.” Together they explore getting to know people, suffering, alcoholism, Christopher Hitchens, the importance of...
by Steve Hedrick | Jun 3, 2024 | Presence Weekly
Today, we live in an age where we look to science and politicians to answer and remove so much of our uncertainty because removing uncertainty increases our feeling of security.Credit: Disney Corporation and Pixar GroupThe DEVO – Finding Security in...
by Steve Hedrick | May 28, 2024 | Presence Weekly
Slavery, in other words, is a clear and present danger for many in Washington and the wider public square. My dad, pointing to the name of his fallen friend at the Vietnam Was Memorial in Washington, D.C.The DEVO: The Jesus We Need (Part 3: The Priest)35 And as Jesus...
by Steve Hedrick | May 20, 2024 | Presence Weekly
In some ways, Mark’s story of Jesus, like that of Kipling’s Dravot, ends with the death of the man who would be king. But, the humiliation of their death is the only thing the two stories have in common. Scene from the 1975 United Artists film adaptation of The Man...
