Ed Cyzewski
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Murray, KY, United States
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How I Hosted a Socially Distanced Book Event
One author’s experience with the pros and cons of promoting a new book to his community in the era of limited social gatherings. → Read More
Why No One Can Say: I’m Bad at Contemplative Prayer
I may not see the benefits of contemplative prayer, but God is already present. → Read More
How to Make Room for the Wonder of God
Unless you become like children you cannot enter the kingdom of God. These words in Matthew 18 riveted my attention a couple of years ago and helped change my perspective. → Read More
Which Kind of Anxious Christian Are You?
The more I talked with one anxious Christian after another, I found that there were actually other kinds of anxious Christians who bring very serious concerns to their attempts at prayer. → Read More
What Do You Lose When You Surrender to God?
The great mystery of our surrender to Jesus is that we can find security and freedom when we leave our limited projects of self-importance and illusion behind. → Read More
Finding Time to Pray vs. Time for Facebook
I want to become the sort of person who is aware of God, who makes space for prayer, and who can enter each day aware of the people around me. Based on my behavior, easy access to Facebook has prevented me from becoming that sort of person. → Read More
Prayer Trains Us to Be Present for God Within Us
God’s love is here and constant, and there is nothing I can do or feel to change that reality. I can ignore it or obstruct it, but I can’t stop it. → Read More
What Are Your Failures and Sins Trying to Tell You?
If we can imagine Jesus as a doctor for a moment, he desires to heal us, and part of being healed is a clear diagnosis. We need to see what is at the root of our failure and sin so that we can allow him to heal and restore us. → Read More
Is a shift in theology enough to stop mainline decline?
Is there hope for the mainline Church in America? Or is it possible that the decline is so great that mainline Protestants won't last much longer than '23 Easters'? → Read More
Forget American Religious Freedom Concerns. Freedom Is Threatened, Period.
Ed Cyzewski on how the events of May 4th offer a kind of microcosm of the Trump administration and why this may be so dangerous for our freedom in the months to come. → Read More
Are American Christians really being persecuted – or are they just being manipulated?
There's an enduring narrative among many conservative Christian groups that the downfall and even persecution of Christianity in America is coming. → Read More
What is behind the Russell Moore showdown with Southern Baptists?
Race, Politics, and Money: Can Russell Moore unite Southern Baptists? Attempts to force Moore to resign must be seen within the wider struggle to determine the political future of the Southern Baptists. → Read More
American Evangelical Self-Preservation And The Destructive Policies Of Donald Trump
By voting for Donald Trump white evangelicals may have ensured the destruction of their own movement. → Read More
Does Religion Help Or Hurt Our Political Decision-Making?
In the 2004 American election, I had deep misgivings about re-electing president George W Bush. → Read More
Will InterVarsity's Mission Suffer from Its Position on Same Sex Relationships?
InterVarsity Christian fellowship, an evangelical college outreach ministry, has announced in a new document on that same sex relationships and support for the same fall outside the bounds of the Bible's teaching. → Read More
Proof That Women Are Expendable For American Evangelicals
In the case of women, the evangelical acceptance of Trump's bullying and degrading of women is nothing new to the wider movement and worthy of closer scrutiny. → Read More
American Christians should be uneasy about militarism in sports
Whether or not you think athletes should stand for the anthem, the true dishonour to soldiers is when we forget their sacrifices and abandon them to suffer and die from their wounds. → Read More
The damaging myth of religious persecution in America
American Christians are not suffering right now, but if you read some of the headlines lately, you'd think our churches are in danger of being shuttered. → Read More
Why we need solitude in the midst of the 2016 American election
Can we disconnect from the noise to immerse ourselves in the quiet presence of God? → Read More
How male headship undermines our freedom in Christ
If you've grown up in a conservative Christian home, especially in America, there's a good chance that you were told that the man has the primary calling in the family. → Read More