The Christian response to politics is to be the Church through the power of the Holy Spirit: a living, breathing community, set apart by its love of God and pouring out to the world. It is the first fruits of the new Kingdom of God.

As we were planning the ministry year we believed that we needed some kind of space where we could not only have conversation around important but controversial topics, but also where we could learn how to have those kinds of conversations. It was not enough to have difficult conversations; we wanted to provide people with the tools to have those conversations in distinctly Christian ways.

It’s not mentioned in Scripture. Its name is absent from the Book of Common Prayer. But the purpose of Ordinary Time is woven throughout both. And, though this time is labeled “ordinary,” it’s far from unimportant. Ordinary Time is comprised of two periods in the liturgical year that stretch between the Christmas and Easter cycles.…

Ordinary Time is that slow, maturing growth time when Jesus shows us our hearts and within them, the wheat and tares that grow therein. During these times in our Christian development, when we think that we are growing worse rather than better, it may well be that we are, instead, about to experience a harvest.

Listen in as we talk with Robert+ Balfour, Associate Priest of Grace Northridge Anglican Church and Director of Old School Makerspace, a creative coworking space focused on building community and making a positive impact in San Antonio and beyond. How did Old School Makerspace get started? Old School Makerspace is the product of collaboration of…

Beauty invites us into itself, and in the strangest way, we benefit and somehow learn more about who we are in the engagement. It is in this precise way that beauty calls us to be attentive, to look both inward and outward and beyond the pressing urgency of our calendars, our appointments, our plans, our worries, our failures and our own brokenness.

Summer Recommended Reading, Part 2 Rev. Robert Balfour, Associate Pastor of Grace Northridge Church, suggests two books he’d recommend this summer.

What are you reading this summer? Consider one of these titles suggested by Dustin+ Messer, Vicar at All Saints Dallas.

In the resurrection, Jesus showed us the true paradigm of the story that started so long ago in the garden, the literal resurrection of a man from the dead. In this incredible event God’s rule and reign were vindicated. The resurrection changed everything.

The verbs “give” and “forgive” are two of the cornerstones of Christian faith and practice. But if giving and forgiving are so central to our faith, why do we find it so hard to follow God’s example? This is the central question that Miroslav Volf explores in his seminal work Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace.