A COVID Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving 2020 is upon us and apparently there will be no departure from all things COVID. Like everything else in this strange season, we find ourselves swimming in warnings, CDC recommendations, and a myriad of questions: to mask or not...
VLOG: IN COVID19 WHERE IS GOD? WHERE IS MY BUSINESS?
TAKE TWO! Please accept our apologies for the technical glitch last week . Some of you were able to view the video and others because of different email platforms were not. Here is a link that will let you click...
Exilic Voting: The Evangelical Present and Future
Today Case Thorp continues his discussion on the upcoming election in the second of three articles. Again, because the election is practically upon us we are publishing these blog posts in three consecutive weeks. If you missed the first blog...
6 Ways Christians Can Be Wiser in Political Engagement
This is the first of a series of three blog posts by Case Thorp on the upcoming election. These articles are not designed to tell you how to vote, rather they are to help us frame our thinking in these...
Do Hobbies Have Value?
This week’s article reinforces what we know instinctively, but cannot always put into words, that hobbies are good for us. By not being able to articulate this position, it is too easily dismissed or undervalued and then replaced with something...
Fear Is A Great Motivator: Love In A Time of Pandemic
“Fear is a great motivator.” Fear is the currency of 2020. Like compound interest, it settled in our quarantined hearts and now grows day by day. It purchases little plots of our minds and conversations until we run out of...
WHAT IS THE BEST DIVISION OF LABOR AT HOME?
The Collaborative promotes the value of all work whether paid or unpaid. However, we tend to feature and discuss the paid kind more often, but not today. Elise Daniel challenges us all to revisit how we think about household activities,...
Time to Pivot
For those of you keeping track, today (August 13, 2020) is day 134 of Orange County, Florida curbing our behavior in some way because of COVID-19. When this first began most people were willing to abide by guidelines and mandates....
Hope: The Promise Inside Of Silence
I was supposed to write this blog post weeks ago, but I didn’t. It’s been easy to be listless, to do the bare minimum. I’ve been watching a lot of superhero shows like Batman, Spiderman, and Static Shock with my...
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