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BLOG 5/3/15. CHRISTIAN FAITH NEVER A COMFORTABLE FIT POLITICALLY For the next eighteen months we are going to be deluged with all kinds of reports and commentaries on politics, politicians, and candidates for the United States presidency. Such is one … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/29/15. WHEN THE GROUND SHIFTS UNDER OUR FEET It is described as a diastrophism: that event that occurs when the tectonic plates beneath the surface of the earth shift, and tend to obliterate much of what is on the … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/26/15. THE CHURCH: WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? If you’re looking for a popular religious society, replete with many activities as your social medium that may call itself a church—you’re not looking for the church. If you’re looking for … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/22/15. EVANGELIZING THOSE ALREADY BAPTIZED? … SAY WHAT? From somewhere back in the archives of my mind comes the quote: “The primary task of the church today is that of evangelizing those already baptized.” I (probably mistakenly) attribute it … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/19/15. THE CONFESSIONS OF THIS ‘GADFLY’ BLOGGER I get asked with some regularity (like this morning) why and how I got into blogging? That’s an interesting question and so I’ll take a stab at an answer. I’ve got sixty … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/15/15. A BEAUTIFUL WORD HI-JACKED: EVANGELICAL Politicians and the press have horribly misused and distorted the word evangelical by using it to identify an extreme right wing coalition as ‘evangelical Christians’, … and too many who have identified themselves … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/12/15. “THREE THINGS WE DON’T TALK ABOUT IN OUR CHURCH …” … Then there was the dude who boasted: “There are three things we don’t talk about in our church: sex, politics, and religion.” That would be sort of … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/8/15. CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS: SO WHAT? I have posted on my refrigerator door an old ‘Mother Goose and Grim’ cartoon strip with two of those big-nosed dogs talking to one another. The one on the left is obviously a St. … Continue reading →

BLOG. 4/5/15. EASTER: A BRIEF WORD ABOUT SUFFERING AND FORGIVENESS Easter might just be an appropriate time to say a brief word about the demeanor of Christ’s followers within difficult contexts and unfriendly-hostile people. The news media seem to relish … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/1/15. (NO FOOLING) POST-NEWBIGIN SCHIZOPHRENICS A couple of generations ago, missionary Lesslie Newbigin returned from a distinguished missionary career in India, only to find that it was much more difficult to get a hearing for the gospel in his … Continue reading →