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BLOG 8/7/16. GOD’S NEW HUMANITY PEOPLE AND THEIR INESCAPABLE POLITICAL CONTEXT. Hey, friends: there is no way we can escape this season of the presidential and congressional campaigns. So, what’ new? Centuries before Jesus arrived on the stage of history, … Continue reading →

BLOG 8/3/16. THE SHEER, OFTEN CONFUSING, MYSTERY OF CHRISTIAN FAITH For starts, Jesus told his followers that not everyone who calls him ‘Lord, Lord’ is going to enter his kingdom, but rather those who do the will of his Father … Continue reading →

BLOG 7/31/16. CONFESSION: A HILARIOUSLY LIBERATING DISCIPLINE Hey, blog friends: Allow me to offer what might seem an utterly ridiculous proposition, i.e., that our confession of how imperfect we are, and how imperfectly we live our lives, and how dismally … Continue reading →

BLOG 7/27/16. BEING GOD’S KINGDOM PEOPLE IN A POLITICAL SEASON It’s worth taking a deep breath, stopping, and remembering that there is no way we can escape being engaged in a political process, beginning at birth. We are all (for … Continue reading →

BLOG 7/24/16. CONTAGIOUS AND INFECTIOUS JOY? WHAT ABOUT IT? What would you say if I were to propose that part of our Christian calling is to be a people of contagious joy—profound, infectious, purposeful, hope-filled joy? So, OK, stick with … Continue reading →

BLOG 7/20/16. THE KINGDOM OF GOD: THRILLING AND RADICAL In C. S. Lewis’ much-loved children’s story: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the children ask Mrs. Beaver if the anticipated lion, Aslan (the Christ-figure in these stories), is ‘safe.’ … Continue reading →

BLOG 7/17/16. RESCUING THE BEAUTIFUL WORD ‘EVANGELICAL’ FROM ABUSE There is something very irresponsible, if not downright obscene, about the way the popular media and too many cnservative religious groups have hi-jacked the designation: evangelical to denote a segment of … Continue reading →

BLOG 7/13/16. MY INDEBTEDNESS TO THE BLACK COMMMUNITY AND BLACK CULTURE. Indulge me here. I’m a white guy, OK? I can never be black, nor can I imagine all of the subliminal pain that is that community’s heritage from the … Continue reading →

BLOG 7/10/2016. NOT LOOKING FOR GOD? OR NOT SO SURE? I have a remarkable acquaintance who self-consciously seeks out those on the margins of society who are so involved in their struggles for economic survival, or their illegal status, or … Continue reading →

BLOG 7/6/2016. WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD ANYONE NEED ‘GOD’? Early in the last century George Jacob Holyoake gave us the classical definition of secularism: The doctrine that morality should be based on regard to the well-being of mankind in … Continue reading →