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 ...
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...
…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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...