My dear fellow alumni, some of us are needed by some of the current students of SSU. I am asking all of us to consider the possibilities of helping others achieve what each of us has. Please consider expressing your debt of gratitude to SSU by serving a student or two each semester through the tutoring opportunities available.

Levine’s work is fascinating. As a Jewish New Testament scholar, she has spent her life challenging interpretations of Scripture that carry antisemitic assumptions. Her point is simple and profound: we don’t need to make Jews look bad to make Jesus look good.

For many Christians, the voice of Palestinian Christians have been almost entirely absent from conversations about Israel and Palestine. CHURCH AT THE CROSSROADS is an opportunity to change that!

The theology of a nonviolent, self-giving God who refuses retaliation and challenges state-sanctioned oppression is very inconvenient for a country that claims that the same God gave them divine permission to steal, kill, and pillage their way across the continent they now call home.

Spiritual pilgrimages are important. Over the past 4 years, I’ve intentionally undertaken annual summer pilgrimages to European, medieval-era cathedrals - something that has allowed me to visit and pray in some of the largest and oldest European cathedrals from Switzerland to Germany to Luxembourg to France to Belgium to the Netherlands to my most recent trip to the United Kingdom just a couple of weeks ago ...