Subversive Peace for this Christmas Season
It is to this group of social outcasts that God chooses to make an announcement of astonishingly good news—good news in which God declares a true peace that subverts the ways of the Empire.
Finding Security as the World Is Upended: Reflections on Isaiah 26
They are willing to try trusting God without knowing exactly what this means. I want to too.
Subversive Peace for this Christmas Season
It is to this group of social outcasts that God chooses to make an announcement of astonishingly good news—good news in which God declares a true peace that subverts the ways of the Empire.
This May Not be a Time for an Altar Call to Unity
Jesus doesn't bundle salvation or healing. He touches individuals. He speaks to the particular pain of each person. He restores the soul of the singular that then speaks to the wounds of the collective. He saves people, not countries.
Subversive Peace for this Christmas Season
It is to this group of social outcasts that God chooses to make an announcement of astonishingly good news—good news in which God declares a true peace that subverts the ways of the Empire.
Giving (Not Taking) is the Mark of the Believer
How Christianity went from a faith based on sacrificial giving to an institutional blessing of taking will certainly be a challenge for historians untangle. If there were ever a faith with the heft, logic, and compassion to oppose imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and exploitation of every kind, you’d think it would be Christianity.
For These Next Seven Days: A Prayer for Those Filled With Dread
Let not our hearts sink into anxiety and dread by the unceasing spin cycle of 24 hour news or the bread and circuses of the imperial intrigue. Instead . . .
Why We Do Not Celebrate Columbus Day
Christopher Columbus may have been a daring adventurer... but he is not someone we want our kids to think of as a hero or role model.
A growing number of cities are no longer celebrating Columbus Day, sw...
The Compass of the Beatitudes
Many of Jesus’ followers were angry. They had been anticipating the culmination of what God had promised, that once again the land would be theirs. But now they were subjects of the Roman Empire.
Political Propaganda is Destroying Christianity
Instead of loving our neighbors, “Christian” propaganda will tell us to deport them, ban them, incarcerate them, discriminate against them, outlaw them, and even bomb them. It will attempt to silence the oppressed and amplify the oppressor.