Hurricane Irene and the Wrath of God
“Do you think God sent Hurricane Irene?” a young man asked me with a curious look in his eyes that was as innocent as it was pensive.
My mind flashed back to a headline I remembered reading yesterday about Gle...
The "God" of the Gut: Animals, Faith & Gluttony
Jesus fished with his disciples. Jesus multiplied a few fish into enough to feed a village. Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, fell into a trance in which God said: “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat” (Acts...
Facing Jesus’ Doppelganger
Hollywood has done a lot to tarnish the reputation of Jews in popular culture when it comes to Jesus.
Yes, Mel Gibson, I’m looking at you.
It was Hitler who, after seeing the famous passion play acted out ...
Confessions of a Failing Radical: Challenges of Walking the Way
This post was inspired by an amicable challenge set forth by my friend Simon Moyle, a peace activist and worthy Twitter followee, in the comments section of a recent post of mine.
But even prior to this chal...
We Are All Illegal
We are all illegal aliens in the kingdom of God granted entry only by the amnesty of Christ’s blood. That is the strange foundational truth of Christianity. There is nothing I can do to get a green card that...
The Great White Hope? What White People Can Do About Racism
I attend a congregation called, Iglesia del Barrio (IDB), which translated into English means “church of the neighborhood.” The congregation is made up of predominantly Puerto Rican folks who have lived most...
With Morbid Silence: Christian Denial in an Age of Economic Disparity
Whether it is in our passionate recitation from the one line of the one Martin Luther King speech we’ve actually read or the long clap that followed our now President’s suggestion that “There’s not a black Amer...
The Face of Privilege in Hard Times
Every industry is getting hammered by the recession, but small nonprofits are getting hit especially hard. I’ve been working mostly by contract for nonprofits for the last eight years, and in three months las...
Hell on Earth and the Kingdom of God
In 2008 I had the opportunity to serve the poorest of poor. There is a people group in Honduras known as, "the people of the dump" who literally live, eat, work, and sleep in the city trash dump. Inside t...
A Faith-Full Labor Day Weekend
Socrates famously said that the unexamined life is not worth living. Sometimes I wonder if the Church that fails to robustly examine the life's challenges in light of faith is a church worth having.
Let's be...