Affluence, Autonomy, Safety, and Power: An interview with D.L. Mayfield on her latest book, The Myth of the American Dream

D.L. Mayfield is an author and activist for just community development and being a good neighbor (how subversive is that!). In addition to her two books, Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith (2016) and The Myth of the American Dream: Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety, and Power (2020), her insights can be found in McSweeney’s, The Washington Post, Christianity Today, Sojourners, Englewood Review of Books, Image Journal, and others. In her conversation with Radix on her latest book, she speaks with hope, humility, and a deep conviction that we can do things better. [Radix]

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An Interview with Mark Labberton on His Book, The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor

The name Mark Labberton won’t be new for many Radix readers; his name has graced our pages more than once, and he always has worthwhile words for head and heart. In his role as pastor, author, and current president of Fuller Theological Seminary, Dr. Labberton has proved to be a prescient voice replete with both timeless wisdom and timely insights. Inspired by his book, The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor: Seeing Others Through the Eyes of Jesus, in this conversation with Radix Mark Labberton speaks to reflections on passion, purpose-finding, and worship by cultivating a heart that listens. To hear

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An Interview with Mark Galli on His Latest Book, When Did We Start Forgetting God?

As the former editor-in-chief of Christianity Today, a minister, and author of numerous books, Mark Galli speaks to broad audiences on faith, politics, and cultivating spiritual wholeness, or what he calls, a “worldly spiritual life,” in a fractured world. Whether in his writing, interviews, The Galli Report, or speaking engagements, his understanding of contemporary culture and our response to it is as compelling as it is compassionate. In this conversation with Radix, Galli shares about his latest book, but also his thoughts on how to engage our world from a place of optimism. [Radix] How has being an editor for

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In Prison and You Visited Me

Each month people gather at our church (“virtually,” these days) for a “dinner and documentary.” Over soup, salad, and homemade cookies, we’ve learned about what’s threatening bee colonies and how to help care for them; about food waste and food distribution in the U.S.; about the surprising benefits of music therapy; and about what’s happening to immigrants and refugees.

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Esteeming the Other, Dialogue & Martin Buber

Some Bible verses bother me, especially the ones that tell me to do things I don’t like. Then there are the scriptures that are downright troubling. I have a hard time with the verse in Philippians 2:3-4 that tells me to esteem others as higher, better, and more important than myself. In a way, I can even love my enemies more easily than esteem those with whom I disagree, because to love isn’t quite the same as to esteem. But to esteem others as higher? How can I imagine that? And, of course, the great trouble is that there is

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