The Politics of Christmas
Far from the quaint Hallmark card version of the crèche scene that is foisted on us each year, Luke’s Christmas story is a call to allegiance.
Will America Pick Up Its Cross?
Today the colonizing spirit leads Christian conferences to flash all (or nearly all) white speaker lineups without a blush, promote white worship music as the gold Christian standard around the world, and build mega churches in the mold of mega malls and amusement parks that serve hundreds of thousands music and scripture disconnected from parishioners’ local contexts and needs.
The Good News No One Needed
MAR 1, 2014 | BY: DORCAS CHENG-TOZUN - I had grown up in a loving home, had absorbed the endlessly looping American messages...
The Good News in Every Story (Book Review)
NOV 16, 2013 | BY: TONY CAMPOLO -- As you read you’ll feel the good news in every page. Because when we live out those red letters of...
Good Weeds: The Gospel as a Good Contagion
CS Lewis used to describe the Gospel as ‘a good contagion’. I would describe the continuing emergence or out-working of the Gospel as the equivalent of good weeds.
No matter how much solid legalism, suffocatin...
Healing Toxic Faith: Did Jesus die to save us from God?
Why did Jesus have to die? Was it to appease a wrathful God's demand for punishment? Does that mean Jesus died to save us from God? How could someone ever truly love or trust a God like that? How can that ever ...
When Dreams Meet Reality: Life in Intentional Community
After years of being a youth pastor, I remember the time I came home from yet another event that required endless administration, energy and resources and asked myself, “Is this what it means to be the Chur...
10 More Reasons The Gospel That's Good News for the Poor is Good News for the Rich
Today’s RLC Blog Challenge: It would be super-easy to skim this Top 10 list and then leave a snarky comment at the end about all the ways the author is so naïve. You can do that if you want. (She actually cou...
Why the Gospel That's Good News for the Poor is now Good News for the Rich (and by "rich", I mean me)
I was at the grocery store, minding my own business, looking for pie crusts in the frozen food section. Harmless, right? Before I found crusts, though, I accidentally stumbled upon the most darling littl...