If you consider yourself a thoughtful Christian, then this is the Year in Review for you.
Year in Review for thoughtful Christians: Part 1 (January – June)
If you consider yourself a thoughtful Christian, then this is the Year in Review for you.
The year in review for thoughtful Christians (you might have missed something)
If you consider yourself a thoughtful Christian, then this is the Year in Review for you.
Sitting in someone else’s chair
We do not want to sit where others sit, because we like believing that our perspective is the best perspective. This is how we divide the world into us and them.
Here are your inspirational clichés for today
Don’t feel sad if you did not spend yesterday or today thinking about it being the day that the Lord has made and being glad in it. Tomorrow will also be a day that the Lord will make.
Churches should be more like grand juries – except for the judging part
I spent two weeks on a grand jury listening to stories that make it clear the world needs good churches.
How churches that don’t think they are anti-Semitic promote anti-Semitism
The church has not just been on the wrong side of history, but on the wrong side of Christianity. Anti-Semitism is by definition a repudiation of Christianity as well as of Judaism, and an enemy of pluralism and democracy.
Hungering for a Christian response to Mississippi’s veggie burger ban
The law raises difficult questions for legislators concerned that hamburgers are not ham, hot dogs are not dogs, circus peanuts are not peanuts, Buffalo wings are not buffalo and refried beans are not fried twice. Churches could divert attention by pointing out a host of problems bigger than lentil burgers that lawmakers might have addressed.
Trinity Sunday: It’s better than ‘daylight savings time begins’
The unpopularity of Trinity Sunday has to do with the incomprehensibility of the Trinity. We sing, confess our faith, and baptize with Trinitarian formulas, but you seldom hear someone in line at Starbucks say, “How ’bout that God in three persons?”