Acting Like A State: ISIS, the US, and Jesus as Lord
But ISIS is different. It aims to be a state on the world stage and uses a Western name for its territory--the Levant. ISIS isn't subverting Western dominance. It's confronting it head on.
ISIS vs the Way of Jesus
The way of Jesus is the hard way. Forgiveness, love, choosing to lay down our lives is the most difficult path in the face of real enemies. ISIS is real. But love is far more powerful.
The Tao of Jesus
JUNE 27, 2014 | BY: STEPHEN JARNICK -- Six centuries before the birth of Jesus the Babylonians were destroying Solomon's temple in Jerusalem...
Scripture Wasn't Written for Men Alone
MAY 19, 2014 | BY: TONY CAMPOLO -- Those of us who are religious have to ask ourselves whether the prophets who inscribed our sacred writings ever...
We are all Agnostic; we just don't have enough faith to admit it!
MAY 17, 2014 | BY: ALAN MOLINEAUX -- If you were an external observer of the regular debates seen on the internet between religious people...
One Reason Atheism Doesn’t Really Answer Anything
MAY 13, 2014 | BY: FRANK SCHAEFFER -- Most people don’t really want to live only according to narrowly defined material facts. Most of us try...
Tribalism, Religion, and Violence
AUGUST 21, 2013 | BY: YAHOLO HOYT -- Religion is itself a victim of a more underlying and ubiquitous engine for violence: tribalism...
Now on the Red Carpet: Sami Rasouli
AUGUST 5, 2013 | BY: MARGOT STARBUCK -- He’d been living in Minnesota when, in 2003, Sami Rasouli returned to his homeland of Iraq...
Ramadan, A Shared Table & Following Jesus
JULY 29, 2013 | BY: JON HUCKINS -- Muslim communities around the United States are often subject to hatred, discrimination and scapegoating...
No, We Don’t Worship The Same God. (Do We?)
JUNE 20, 2013 | BY: BRANDAN ROBERTSON -- You see, our personalities and experiences are the keys to what shape our conception...