Kimberly Olivar

While Douglas’s article, “Supporting Diversity and Inclusion Means Teaching Kids about Those with Disabilities,” by Cathi Douglas, focuses on children, it shows more broadly that congregation members of all ages benefit from conversations on diversity and disabilities in the church—not only are they better able to love and welcome every member of the Body of […]

Christians who have experienced great trauma and loss are all too familiar with the tropes of well-meant consolation from friends and family—passages of Scripture recited, cliché Christian phrases inside a Dayspring card along with a copy of C.S. Lewis’ A Grief Observed. Rational explanations for death are juxtaposed to the actual pain of death’s sting. […]