Fourteen Years On

Fourteen years is a strange amount of time. It's long enough for life to move on, for children to grow, for whole chapters to begin and end. It’s also short enough that some memories still feel close. Seeing James, a tall, opinionated, and active fifteen year old reminds me every day that this feeling is a lie. Losing Mum sits in both spaces. It feels recent and distant at the same time, but life today often becomes an unwanted reality check.

Bible Study: Made in the Image of God — Part 3: The Image of God and the Life of the Church

After exploring how the Image of God has been distorted, and reclaiming what Scripture actually says, we can finally ask what this means for the life of the church. If every person bears God’s image fully, how should the church look, feel, and function?

Bible Study: Made in the Image of God — Part 2: What Scripture Says About the Image of God

After naming the distortions that have shaped how disabled and neurodivergent people are seen in the church in Part 1 of this study, we can turn to what Scripture actually says about the Image of God — and the picture is far more expansive, embodied, and hopeful than many of us were taught.