A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to preach on the Parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10. I won’t revisit the sermon itself, but one observation continues to play over and over in my head. In Jesus’…
Gerrymandering the gospel
Two recent news stories caught my attention. The first was about the ongoing gerrymandering fight in Texas, and California’s counter-response through Proposition 50, which passed with strong support. Gerrymandering — manipulating district boundaries to give one group a political advantage — has…
I’ve been following the wrong Jesus
Imagine looking for Jesus in the Antebellum South of America. Both the slave master and the slave proclaimed allegiance to Jesus. The slave master, because he believed all his wealth, wisdom and power over people he considered sub-human was a…
Christianity: Where the end justifies the means
It is hard not to argue that conservative Christians led the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade — whether they be evangelicals, Roman Catholics, Mormons or Eastern Orthodox. Since the rise of the Moral Majority, Paul Weyrich, the Christian Coalition…