Living Into a New Story
My wife, Amy, and I just got back from a quick trip to Las Vegas for my 40th birthday. I jumped off a 109-story building, we did the zip line down Freemont Street, watched a couple of shows, ate too much f...
Troy Davis and the Biblical Case(s) for Violence
As I write this article, it appears that Troy Davis will be executed within a few hours. He will join countless others, including Osama bin Laden, who have been killed legally. Chief among the many questio...
The Church of Outrage vs. The Church of Vulnerability
Buy cialis soft onlinelt="" width="240" height="160" />In the buildup to the US invasion of Iraq, a haunting video got circulated of Saddam Hussein standing in a room of people who were giving him a standi...
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...
The Majority Needs Diversity More Than The Minority
A couple months ago I was at a one-day conference on raising money and sustaining your sport’s club. Working with Timoteo, a flag football ministry in Philly that mentors young men, I was eager to learn how ...
What if Jesus Meant All That Stuff?
To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christian...
Hiroshima and the Transfiguration: A Meditation
It must be one of the extraordinary accidents of history that the first atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, which marks the annual Feast of the Transfiguration for Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox ...
A Desperate Need for Imagination
The world is desperately in need of imagination.
I will never forget the words of an Iraqi doctor I met while I was in Baghdad as a peacemaker in 2003, protesting the “shock and awe” campaign. As the bombs ...
Actualizing the Kingdom on Earth
The church today is enthralled in a movement that believes in a commitment to create a just and loving society in which we can fully actualize the Kingdom of God before the Second Coming of Christ. The Kingdom...
Osama bin Laden and the Lamb Who Was Slain
Like just about every other American, I can tell you where I was, what I was doing, and how I heard the news on that September day. But that’s not the memory that’s been replaying in my head throughout th...