My Letter to the IRS
As a Christian, Easter marks the most stunning act of grace and enemy-love in human history – Jesus’ death and resurrection. As Jesus was being tortured and executed, he cried out for mercy, even for those ...
A Proposal for "Illegal Aliens"
The Hebrew Scriptures clearly call for the children of Israel to make room for the alien. The Israelites are reminded that they, too, were once aliens in a strange and distant land.
…Who loves the stranger...
Religionless Spirituality
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Christian martyr, once prophesied from a Nazi concentration camp that there would come a day when there would be a religion-less Christianity. With ambivalence he looked into the twen...
Digging Deeper: The Coming Evangelical Split
I wrote a short article a few weeks back on the split of Evangelical Christianity. It started out as simply a Facebook note and went viral at online hubs such as Red Letter Christians with Tony Campolo and Chur...
Faithful Christianity Means a Walking Hypocrite?
A couple months back my good friend Adam McLane posted these profoundly truthful words on feeling like a hypocrite. When I read it I quickly remembered a series of conversations I’ve recently had. Before I ge...
Lose Yourself
As a college professor, I could always count on someone coming into my office around the beginning of May and telling me he wasn't coming back net semester. (It was usually a guy.)
I would try to be professio...
What Do You Mean by Sin?
From time to time, I have been asked in the academic classrooms where I have taught to define what I mean by sin. I always respond by saying, “Sin is what diminishes the humanity of another person and of the...
Dear Rob. . .An Open Letter to Rob Bell
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It was great being with you a couple of weeks ago – before the entire media stir. If it is not too presumptuous of me, I woul...
Resurrection City: For a Living Wage
When Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the world stopped for a moment. Shaken, confused but searching for a way to continue the fight, civil rights leaders decided to continue Ki...
Mona Lisa and Jesus
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