AfterVarsity

Wednesday, August 15, 2018 Bethany Horvath

Sabbath Fits: Cooking and Connecting

Over the next year, InterVarsity staff are intentionally practicing Sabbath together in ways that fit our unique roles, passions, ages, and stages. We’ll offer testimonies from current and former staff that help us all reenvision how we can engage in this important practice with joy and intention. Bethany Horvath, a Project Manager with InterVarsity whose church traditions include Non-Denominational (current), Presbyterian/USA, and Southern and American Baptist, starts us off.

August 07, 2018

By Brenda Jo Wong

Making Sense of Christianity’s Branches: Meet a Charismatic

As Charismatic Christianity affirms all the gifts of the Holy Spirit, believers can hear from God in multiple ways. God can speak through dreams, visions, prophetic words, or listening prayer. We see many examples of this in Scripture.

July 26, 2018

By Steve Tamayo

Making Sense of Christianity’s Branches: Meet a Non-Denominationalist

Although non-denom churches can be difficult to explain and define, I find them easy to justify. Non-denominational churches exist because God’s people are diverse and his passions include the entire earth. Some of us just don’t fit into a denominational box.

July 19, 2018

By Jason Gaboury

Making Sense of Christianity’s Branches: Meet an Anglican

Anglicans have learned to see the churning conflict of each generation as an opportunity for worship, witness, and welcome. Sometimes articulated as via media or “the middle way,” Anglicans blur the lines between Protestant and Catholic, Reformed and Anabaptist, liberal and evangelical. This is our church’s greatest strength as well as its most profound weakness.

July 12, 2018

By Scott Brill

Making Sense of Christianity’s Branches: Meet a Lutheran

In terms of denominational origin stories, it’s hard to get more dramatic than Lutheranism.

July 05, 2018

By Colleen Degen

Making Sense of Christianity’s Branches: Meet a Catholic

For those unfamiliar with Catholicism and its beliefs, it may seem complicated, antiquated, and full of ritual. But, having been raised in the Catholic Church, I recognize the ways I have been formed by its teachings and its history, and see ways that it has much to offer the broader Church.

June 28, 2018

By Chandra Crane

Making Sense of Christianity’s Branches: Meet a Presbyterian

Presbyterians aren’t usually seen as being the life of the party. But I am grateful for the ways the gospel is preached, in all its nuance and life-giving truth, at my Presbyterian church in Jackson, Mississippi.

June 21, 2018

By R. York Moore

Making Sense of Christianity’s Branches: Meet a Baptist

I knew from an early age that Baptists were passionate and caring people.

June 14, 2018

By Drew Larson

Making Sense of Christianity’s Branches

Aren’t you a little curious what similarities and passions you might share with your neighbors in the faith? Crack open the door of your tradition and peek behind some of the others by reading first-person reflections from a selection of denominations and traditions.