Kingdom Politics: Sewing the Great Commandment Back Together
BY: MORGAN GUYTON -- The challenge of Christians who want to see kingdom values reflected in our society’s politics...
Possibilities: Is this what got Jesus killed?
BY: MICHAEL KIMPAN -- Jesus revealed God in a way that had not been seen or imagined before - and encouraged those...
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 ...
Why the “Christian life” isn’t worth living
For most of my life, I focused my faith on knowing Jesus through morality management. More accurately, Jesus was savior and the Spirit was the voice that helped give me the strength to avoid things like cussi...
On justice, marriage, and Obama
…because not quite enough has been said about this yet.
If you’ve read a news magazine, been online or watched CNN in the past week, you know that May 9 President Obama finally came out and declared he was f...
When a System Demands our Allegiance Away from Christ
When I am faced with dishonesty and fraud on a systemic scale, I ask questions of God. But as I trace the origins of injustice, I am directed back towards humanity. The question becomes: what can we do to e...
Wild Goose 2012 (VIDEO)
Over the past few months, the Wild Goose team and the staff at The Work of the People have been poring over video footage to create a highlight video from our debut year in 2011. While it’s impossible to repr...
Jesus, Forgiving Economic Debts and Personal Sins
In the Lord's prayer, our daily prayer, we pray, "forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors."
As we forgive our debtors.
Forgive us our debts.
In Aramaic, debt and sin are the same word, ḥōb.
So...
Judgment's Triumph: The Unjust Death of Troy Davis
On Wreading teacherednesday, September 21 the US Supreme Court chose to deny Troy Davis' final appeal for a stay of execution. In spite of his claim of innocence, no physical evidence of guilt, and the rec...
The Great White Hope? What White People Can Do About Racism
I attend a congregation called, Iglesia del Barrio (IDB), which translated into English means “church of the neighborhood.” The congregation is made up of predominantly Puerto Rican folks who have lived most...