When Faith Means Reciting a Social Script: What is a Christian?
MAY 25, 2014 BY: JEREMY JOHN -- Belief is social performance. We believe we believe something when we tell others we believe it. I've always...
Noah, Magic, and Poetry: What is a Christian?
MAY 18, 2014 | BY: JEREMY JOHN -- I have always believed in magic. Perhaps I believe in magic because I would be bored by a world...
Lent: Falling in Love With the Ordinary
MAR 16, 2014 | BY: JEREMY JOHN -- Lent is an extraordinary time to establish our joys in the everyday. We give those things...
Praying for a Holistic Food Movement in the Household of God
BY: JEREMY JOHN -- If we’re going to reform our nation’s unsustainable agricultural system, we’re going to need to tackle economic...
Is the Kingdom of God Built of Vegetables?
BY: JEREMY JOHN -- Vegetables. Who could have imagined an economy in which gentle vegetables were subversive?
Physical Churches: Do They Matter Anymore?
Micah Bales asked a deep question. He suggests that the wealth in property we’ve inherited is hindering our work for social justice. He talks provocatively (as a spiritual challenge, he clarifies) about “burn...
Social Location at Wild Goose
At Wild Goose, I was humbled to be among justice-seeking Christians seeking to follow in the footsteps of Jesus.
I see a deep connection between the personal practice of simple living and activism for social...
The Table is the Microcosm of a Practical Faith
My generation is a practical generation, and I am challenged by my faith to be a practical person. Don’t get me wrong: I love all verbal and theological things: story, theology, politics, and history, pe...
When a System Demands our Allegiance Away from Christ
When I am faced with dishonesty and fraud on a systemic scale, I ask questions of God. But as I trace the origins of injustice, I am directed back towards humanity. The question becomes: what can we do to e...
Foreclosure Resistance, A Prayer
Oh Lord, save your servant who trusts in you. -Psalm 86
A prayer lifts up from the city, like the smoke of incense. A single prayer, in the myriad of others, a strand of smoke amidst a great burning.
Oh L...