Tag: ekklesia

Creating Conversation: Eating (as) the Body of Christ during COVID-19

by Jonathan Bird • May 26, 2021 • 3 Comments

This weekly editorial gives opportunity for people to speak about issues they believe are vital for the church to respond to. We asked Shadia Qubti (see accompanying article) to respond to this article, in part to model healthy conversation. One of…

The problem with calling the church a ‘faith community’

by Ed Searcy • April 18, 2018 • 1 Comment

In recent years it has become commonplace in the church to speak of the church as a ‘community of faith’ and to refer to congregations as ‘faith communities.’ I suspect that this shift in language has been made in order…