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    Protecting the Arctic Refuge

    At the northeastern edge of Alaska lies a stretch of tundra that has been called many names: the Coastal Plain, the 1002 Area, the crown jewel of the refuge system. But to the Gwich’in people, whose...
    November 7, 2025
  • Justice Prayers - November 5, 2025

    Lord, You meet us where we are, whether we rejoice or mourn. Help us to meet one another there too. The Colossians Forum Religious Persecution in China Chinese police have detained dozens of pastors...
    November 5, 2025
  • A bowl of apple slices sits in the grass

    A Bowl Full of Apples

    We are called to seek justice, love mercy and walk humbly before our God. Some days, this is very difficult and other days it comes very easily. I spent the past two days serving frontline urban...
    November 3, 2025
  • Justice Prayers - October 29, 2025

    “For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.” - 2 Corinthians 6:16 (NIV) Hurricane...
    October 29, 2025
  • a muskox rests in the fall tundra at Arctic Refuge

    Can This Piece of God’s Earth Be Saved?

    The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, located on the fringes of northern Alaska, is so remote that very few nonindigenous people will ever step foot on the land. This pristine land is home to the Gwich...
    October 24, 2025
  • Justice Prayers - October 22, 2025

    “Christ is risen. He is no less risen on the road to Emmaus than he is anywhere else. So look for him. Listen for him." - Debie Thomas Philippines: Tropical Storm Fengshen Eight people have died and...
    October 22, 2025
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    Welcoming Peace, Holding Onto Hope

    October 9, 2025, marked two days after the two-year anniversary of the Hamas attacks on the south of Israel. The devastation experienced on that horrific day resulted in the deaths of roughly 1,200...
    October 20, 2025
  • No Hoops to Jump Through

    It was a quiet Sunday morning service last spring when, during church announcements, my ears suddenly pricked up. Tickets had been donated for the church youth group—of which my two teenage sons are a...
    October 17, 2025
  • Justice Prayers - October 15, 2025

    “When the darkness hides your smiling face When temptations moves in close Would you lead me through the valley, through the wilderness You’re not a stranger to the desert road ~ Porter’s Gate “Not a...
    October 15, 2025
  • an artistic image of water flowing out of the doors of a church and across the nations

    The River of God for the Nations

    "He measured off another thousand, but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough to swim in—a river that no one could cross. He asked me, “Son of man...
    October 10, 2025
  • Justice Prayers - October 8, 2025

    “Faith is a footbridge that you don't know will hold you up over the chasm until you're forced to walk out onto it.” ― Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son Canada A new Thomson Reuters study...
    October 8, 2025