Why Do You Say You Love Jesus?
What I really want to know is why this “love” so often doesn't look like love; why this “faith” doesn’t look like faith. Would they say, "It's not about what love looks like, it's about what I believe"?
Speak Love, Not War
Why is it that our modern church culture identifies faith with the language of pain, aggression, and domination more so than with nurturing peace and equality?
Choosing Love at Belonging’s Expense and Wondering What Now
It is awfully convenient to believe the right thing to do is whatever you want, at anyone else’s expense. It felt like the lives of the sick and vulnerable didn’t matter. Then George Floyd was murdered.
Love is the Most Important Command
Maybe we fear that love is a zero-sum game, that if we give of ourselves there might not be anything left for us. But love is not about self-abnegation.
Lunchtime Grace: Lessons from the Meal Line
For this man revealed the compassion of Christ to cover someone who was exposed, to protect someone in their nakedness, and at risk to himself, broke the rules of the lunch time line. He taught me something about the reach of grace.
Compassion Must Trump Conviction
Just because we use the Bible to make an argument does not mean the argument is loving or correct; just because we say we love someone does not mean we are actually engaged in loving them.
For Christians, Is There ‘A Time to Hate?’
Hate is not found in any list of virtues. Yet, interestingly enough, we find scripture saying, “There is…a time to love, and a time to hate” (Ecclesiastes 3:8)
Let’s Have Church! (By Loving Our Neighbors)
In seeking eternal life, are we not making choices about who we love as our neighbor?
Voting for the Common Good
Encouraging people of faith to bring about a change on election day by making the common good their voting criteria.
The Renewal of All Things
The Jesus of Revelation 21 is "making all things new," that is, re-newing all things to their original intent in a way which far surpasses that which has come before. He is making all things kainos.