God Did Not Write the Bible…
. . . and that doesn’t hurt its holiness or its validity!
When I was a child my Sunday School teachers used to say that God whispered the words of the Bible, and someone wrote them down. There is some level o...
How Does a Red Letter Christian Read the Bible?: A Jesus-shaped Proposal
How does a Red Letter Christian read the Bible? From the name, you'd think it means that we focus on the red letters of Jesus. This is certainly true. But does that mean that we ignore the regular black lett...
10 Skills Required for Intercultural Transformation
Last week I wrote about Undoing Houston’s Racism, including my own silence when violence was jokingly threatened against people of color. There I said that, “Racism, antipathy and alienation between diffe...
Verse a day makes for a good year
Source: The Huntsville Times/Kay Campbell
At about 1 p.m. on Sunday, April 20, 2012, sitting alone in the quiet and clean Taco Bell in the shadow of the new Sparkman Drive overpass, I had the immense...
Taking “Jesus Christ” Out of the Bible
A new translation of the Bible called “The Voice” (no, Cee-Lo makes no appearances in this one), published by Thomas Nelson, has created quite a buzz. The discussion is not so much around what is in the ne...
What does Jesus think about Homosexuality?
Is homosexuality a sin? It's an age-old question, and there are people on both sides of the debate, each quoting their Bibles. How do we know who's right? What would Jesus do if he were here with us today? Je...
The Power of Being a Partial Bible Christian!
“By calling ourselves Red Letter Christians, we are alluding to those old versions of the Bible wherein the words of Jesus are printed in red. In adopting the name, we are saying that we are committed to l...
Is That Any Way to Treat a Bible?
We are not Catholic, but for a variety of reasons we sent our daughter to Catholic schools.
In a high school religion class, the teacher approached my daughter during class, took her Bible and was horrified...
A Little Bird Told Me
A little bird told me. You've probably heard this familiar saying. It comes from the Bible, Ecclesiastes 10:20 to be exact.
The full version is: "Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, or curse the ri...
The Christian Industrial Complex
I went into a Christian bookstore the other day and was surprised to see some of the most prominent display space given over to military flags for the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. These flags, ...