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Selling off Christianity for parts
This interview is a real gift for me. There were times in my life, long before deconstruction was the phrase to use, where similar shifts happened for me theologically.
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Give us shepherds, Lord
I was as swept up on the “leadership” movement as anyone when I was beginning ministry. John Maxwell was my guy. I fell into his mantra of “Everything rises and falls on leadership.”
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King: A Life
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig is new work on Martin Luther King, Jr. There is certainly so much that is familiar, but thousands of pages of recently released documents plus interviews with neighborhood friends, church goers in King’s day, and more added new depth to King’s life.
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A prayer for the peace of the world
I am long over my pre-tribulation rapture days and looking at “signs” in the Middle East and making wild predictions of the end of the world. Where I find myself these past many years is longing for peace. A longing to “study war no more.” There is a longing when I pray, “Your Kingdom come, your will be done, on…
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A deepening of my faith and calling
Two recent books that have deepened my faith and calling: This Foundational Order by Dr. Tara Jernigan The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography by Dr. Alan Jacobs
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Living in faith and fire
Hebrews 12:28–29 (NIV): 28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, 29 for our “God is a consuming fire.”
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Overcoming the DNA of violence
He shall judge between many peoples and shall arbitrate between strong nations far away;they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks;nation shall not lift up sword against nation; neither shall they learn war any more; (Micah 4:3, NRSVue)
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The deep joy of God
I am working on synthesizing some thoughts from two books: The Spirit of Our Politics by Michael Wear and Jesus and the Powers by NT Wright and Michael Bird. There are three areas I am covering to put together some thoughts on how we are are live as Christians in America. (NOT American Christians. Note the difference.) There are the…
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Political and spiritual involvement
One of the words we toss around without understanding the definition is “secular.” When it comes to being in the public square, it is a misunderstood (and abused) word. In Jesus and the Powers, Wright and Bird draw a clear picture of true secularism, where government is useful to allow religious voices to be heard but not dominating, and non-religious…
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Downing Street doesn’t ‘do God’
NT Wright and Michael Bird in their new book, Jesus and the Powers, deal with living out faith in government life as one aspect of faith and faithfulness to the Kingdom of God. They tell a story of Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of Great Britain. In one interview, a journalist was asking Blair about his faith and before Blair…
