Libyan Ambassador Stevens’ Death Tragic, Hopeful, Ironic
BY: CHRISTIAN PIATT -- I’ve been reflecting on the recent events in Libya involving the death of...
Why We Need to Build This Meme: #JesusIsMyCandidate
BY: MORGAN GUYTON -- Every Christian who cares more about Jesus than winning arguments or staying...
How To (and Not To) Respond to the Current Crisis in the Middle East
BY: JON HUCKINS -- My heart is heavy. Every day for the past week, every social media outlet has...
A Child Shall Lead Them
BY: MORF MORFORD -- What’s the point of point of a theology if you can’t live it? Martin Luther used to say that your theology should make sense to a child...
Why Abortion Should Not Be Politically Decisive for Christians
BY: CRAIG M. WATTS -- I recall years ago on the Sunday before a national election a surprise awaited members of...
Staying "On Message" for Jesus
My congregation Burke United Methodist Church is doing a campaign this fall called Jesus is My Candidate: I Vote for Him Every Day. A dimension of this campaign is thinking about how we “vote” for Jesus (mainta...
(Un)Patriotic – Politics are Ugly
Politics are ugly. Especially in an election year.
Recent polls show this election is heating up, and the fury with which each side expresses their views seemingly deepens every day. Our Twitter feeds are over...
Pussy Riot and the Temple Incident
I’ve been asking afresh why the political and religious authorities of Jesus’ day thought it necessary to conspire in his death. What did he do or say that constituted a capital crime in their minds? It was cer...
Good Weeds: The Gospel as a Good Contagion
CS Lewis used to describe the Gospel as ‘a good contagion’. I would describe the continuing emergence or out-working of the Gospel as the equivalent of good weeds.
No matter how much solid legalism, suffocatin...
Leadership as a Code Word for Power
In the 1980′s there was a push within the Church to build leaders. The thinking was that effective leadership could spark the Church out of its malaise. People like Bill Hybels and John Maxwell began building ...