NURTURING RECONCILIATION: Peace at the Checkpoint

This week, VJN invited Katie Barnhill to reflect on some of her experiences with travelling to Israel and Palestine. She candidly shares about how the Holy Spirit has the power to enter into all kinds of spaces of tension and disarm them. “Peace at the …

“Tearing Down the Dividing Walls”: Highlights from Vineyard Global Conference

What an incredible week of worship, teaching, and sharing stories with over 4,500 people, spanning over 60 countries at the Vineyard Global conference. Some highlights: UK National Director Ele Mumford affirmed our roots to “be naturally supernatural” and to “not be weird”, Nepal National Director …

NURTURING RECONCILIATION: BHM – The Devil Does Business at the Crossroads

There is a postscript to the myth that at the crossroads where blues-legend Robert Johnson made his pact with the devil, it is this: Robert all ready possessed the sound that caused the strings on his guitar to vibrate, hum, and sing with a sound …

NURTURING RECONCILIATION: BHM – We Need A Civil Reconciliation Movement

VJN invited Michael Raburn to share his thoughts on the film Selma and the Civil Rights Movement. I saw the film Selma recently (and I highly recommend seeing it). It stirred up a lot of thoughts and feelings and predominant among them was how much has changed and …

NURTURING RECONCILIATION: BHM – Lessons from Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass is known as the great abolitionist and statesman but what many do not know is that he was a preacher in the African Methodist Zion church. As a preacher an ex-slave, and a prominent leader in the abolition movement, Douglass had some piercing …