Apprentice 2 Jesus

  • Advent Approaches

    This is what I love about the liturgical calendar: It won’t match up to the American civil religion calendar. The first Sunday of Advent is the new year in the Church. Read more

  • Thanksgiving

    Every year I can’t help but reflect on these words from Abraham Lincoln: By the President of the United StatesA Proclamation Read more

  • Bonhoeffer’s approach to the rise of Nazism

    It was 1933 and the German national church was almost entirely on board with Nazi propaganda. Over 90 percent of the student body in the theology department at the university in Berlin had joined the National Socialist Party. Read more

  • The prophetic church

    Bonhoeffer asked the powerful question: When will it be that Christianity says the right word at the right time? Read more

  • Bonhoeffer’s powerful question

    Bonhoeffer asked this significant question in the early 1930s. It is one I constantly ask in my decades of following Christ as well: Read more

  • The need to regain the true definition of love

    I am not a sociologist and I offer this only as an illustration. When we don’t understand the deepest motives of our actions, the actions we think are “righteous” will die a quick death. Read more

  • The joy of Tony Campolo

    I was a teenager when I first heard Tony Campolo preach. Since then I’ve read some of his work, listened to more sermons, and observed someone who lived out the joy of the Kingdom of God. There were the struggles as well. He didn’t hide the struggle of his son walking away from the Christian… Read more

  • Walk deeper than ever before

    Russell Moore writes: The nonstop news cycle and drama won’t be some unforeseen circumstance. It’s what the American people voted for. The theory that people would want to “turn the page” on all that, offered by Vice President Kamala Harris, proved false. Turns out most people liked the drama just fine. So here we go. Read more

  • To keep the main thing the main thing

    Walking my way through Marsh’s biography on Bonhoeffer, there is a time in New York where Bonhoeffer attends Union Seminary for a year. He also encounters Reinhold Niebuhr. He leaves after a year of study at Union frustrated because he found their theological approach too weak. Read more

  • Keeping calm in chaotic times

    We can — we must! — take responsibility for the way we live and work in our homes and neighborhoods, workplaces and public squares. We can refuse to permit the culture to dictate the way we go about our lives. More HERE. Read more