Why It’s Not Okay to Call Humans ‘Animals’
Seeing people as anything less than God’s image-and-spirit-bearers is blasphemous.
A Glimpse of Heaven
Rare is the person who wants hell to exist because they need it for themselves. We need hell as a convenient place to put all the people we hate. As an option for ourselves and our loved ones, well, hell becomes a lot less popular.
Isolation Won’t Save Us
Building authentic relationships while serving our communities is how we rebuild our country both spiritually and physically.
When Christianity Causes More Division than Unity
JULY 3, 2014 | BY: STEPHEN MATTSON -- It’s convenient, tempting, and easy for Christians to obsess over the smallest details of our...
Is the Gay Thing Worth Splitting a Church? Definitely Not, and Definitely Yes.
JUNE 19, 2014 | BY: KATHY VESTAL -- Beyond the essentials of the faith, there is room for our diversity. We have different opinions about...
Beyond Liberal and Conservative: A vision of unity for a divided church
FEB 14, 2014 | BY: SHAWN CASSELBERRY -- Some have said we are the divided states of America. Divided between blue and red states...
Why Dual Citizenship = Treason
FEB 6, 2014 | BY: LANCE SCHAUBERT -- There is no such thing dual citizenship in Heaven. That’s a theological lie told to passive people...
Time Share Charity and God's Scandalous Grace
JULY 23, 2013 | BY: JOY BENNETT -- We should not be surprised, then, that the recipients of our time share charity have learned how to...
Trayvon and George: A Tale of Two Americas
JULY 15, 2013 | BY: BRIAN MCLAREN -- Emerging America doesn’t love Trayvon and hate George, or love George and hate Trayvon...
The False Idol of “Christianity”
JUNE 6, 2013 | BY: STEPHEN MATTSON -- Welcome to Christianity! Please complete the following questionnaire: Do you believe in the...