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I am breezing my way back through a great memoir, The Pastor, by Eugene Peterson. What a gentle book to remind me of life and calling! Peterson grew up in a setting familiar to me when it came to church. His story resonates deeply in my life, at least until he went to college. Read more
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Supposing there was a different kind of authority. Supposing there was a different kind of power. A power that didn’t work by having an army at its back, and thugs to break down your door at five in the morning; a force that had nothing to do with violence, and everything to do with the… Read more
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I am wrapping up Russell Moore’s book, Losing Our Religion and if there are two places I would copy and keep near me at all times, it would be the section where he talked about the need to make peace with homelessness and the conclusion to the book. Moore is a Southern Baptist to the… Read more
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“Christian nationalism is not a politically enthusiastic version of Christianity, nor is it a religiously informed patriotism. Christian nationalism is a prosperity gospel for nation-states, a liberation theology for white people.” (Russell Moore, Losing Our Religion, p. 117, emphasis added) Read more
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23 Jesus traveled throughout the region of Galilee, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom. And he healed every kind of disease and illness. 24 News about him spread as far as Syria, and people soon began bringing to him all who were sick. And whatever their sickness or disease, or if… Read more
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We have been Balkanizing the U.S. for quite some time. We truly want to hang out only with “our folks” no matter the place on the political spectrum. I miss the days before social media. Truly. Read more
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This is me saying something about “Christian Nationalism” again. And I will keep doing so. Russell Moore in THIS INTERVIEW sums up why we need to keep raising the flag on this one: Your book delves into Christian nationalism as a component of the evangelical movement. How would you define Christian nationalism? And how has… Read more
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Fear drives politics. It raises money. It gets people turned toward an “enemy”… and then looking for “solutions.” This is not the way of the Kingdom of God. Read more
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“After the disruptions of the past few years, though, the primary critique of evangelical Christianity — from the outside world as well as from those of us who’ve found ourselves accidental exiles within the church — is not that evangelical Christianity believers and practices all these things, but that we don’t.” (Losing Our Religion, p.… Read more
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In the past week we learned that a missions organization our church supports in a major way suffered a great tragedy. The organization is led “on the ground” in that nation by nationals. No Americans are in the country currently that are part of that mission. There is a reason. The country is completely falling… Read more
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