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Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven. Nobody Wants to Die

June 12, 2012

Whether it's Kony, Syria or Iran, one thing is clear: Americans think more of military intervention than preemptive love. This wouldn't be surprising, except that so many Americans identify themselves as ...

Greater Love?

Morf Morford

June 4, 2012

General

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:12-14 That was the inscription under the stained-glass window in a military chapel of a paratrooper in full battle gear on h...

See you on the other side Chuck Colson (VIDEO)

Shane Claiborne

April 30, 2012

General

Chuck Colson died on April 21. Colson worked with Nixon and went to jail over an obstruction of justice charge (interestingly enough, for attempting to defame the Pentagon Papers). But more fondly, Colson wil...

"Does once saved always saved apply even though he became an atheist?”

Kurt Willems

April 13, 2012

General

Source: staytondailyphoto.com I stand at the graveside of a young student. Fifteen years old. Dead in an instant. Skateboarding on a foggy night and a car that never even saw a faint shadow, until it was too...

True Meaning of Easter Lies in its Beauty, Not its Violence

Kay Campbell

April 10, 2012

Church Life, Theology

Surely the truest way to find the God of Easter is not through contorted extractions of retribution and atonement.

The Love in Resurrection

Tony Campolo

April 8, 2012

General

At Calvary, we see what the power of Satan can do. We observe the demonic nature of political and religious power infused by evil. The Roman governor and the Hebrew king, on the one hand, and the priests a...

Jesus, the Ham of God

Morf Morford

April 5, 2012

General

How did we go from the Passover Lamb to the Easter Ham? It’s a complicated, not very pretty story, central to modern religious identity and, for those reasons, tucked away from public view. A truly “new” ...

Worship and the Poor: Embracing Jesus on the Streets and on my Knees

Chris Lahr

January 21, 2012

General

Fifteen years ago my wife and I went to India for the first time. A great deal of our trip was spent at the Home for the Dying and Destitute in Calcutta, a home started by Mother Teresa. The home was made up o...

Two Years Later: A Prayer for Haiti

Kent Annan

January 12, 2012

Global

Loving God, We come to you, first, in silence. We mourn those who died two years ago in the earthquake. And we mourn with those who continue to mourn. We come to you in sadness, too, for the suffering of...

On the Death of My Mother and the Nature of Love

Andrew Himes

November 8, 2011

General

On Tuesday afternoon, October 4, 2011, my sister Faith called from Chattanooga and said, “Mom’s gone.” I heard a rushing sound in my ears and my heart thumped and I said the most profound thing I could thin...