Becoming a New Person
The new year, in every calendar and every tradition, is usually both a time of reflection and a time of renewal.
In most, if not all traditions, it is an affirmation of the desire and hope that we can be, an...
Protecting What We Have
And no force in human history would dare confront such an ingrained and manifested belief system. Except one did.
The Mark of Cain: On Who Deserves to Live
Killing in the name of God should be the ultimate oxymoron – the most extreme self-canceling, obvious-to-all contradiction.
Transcending Boundaries as People of Faith
God’s love, if we believe it, is unlimited and crosses every human-made boundary.
Why Do You Say You Love Jesus?
What I really want to know is why this “love” so often doesn't look like love; why this “faith” doesn’t look like faith. Would they say, "It's not about what love looks like, it's about what I believe"?
The Calling of Transformation
These are the people who follow the calling we are all called to follow: to leave a trail of transformation wherever we go. There is no greater calling.
Propositional Church in a Wounded World
What were those “statements of faith” in the light of tragedy? Social upheaval? Personal challenges? Difficult relationships? Crisis? Or even encounters with wonder and discovery?
Black Deaths Matter
Our media obsession with the taking of life (whether fictional or under the guise of “news”) literally defines our culture and era. And nothing captures our attention, passion, clicks, and eyeballs more than the portrayals of Black deaths at the hands of white vigilantes . . .
Easter Won’t be Cancelled
Perhaps the lesson of Easter still stands: no stone, no guards, no jeering crowds, no pious bureaucracy, no political compromise will ever hold back, or even begin to contain the living Truth.
Giving (Not Taking) is the Mark of the Believer
How Christianity went from a faith based on sacrificial giving to an institutional blessing of taking will certainly be a challenge for historians untangle. If there were ever a faith with the heft, logic, and compassion to oppose imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and exploitation of every kind, you’d think it would be Christianity.