Tag: Empire

  • Dan

    Jesus and the Powers

    Jesus and the Powers by Wright and Bird is a book we are using in a book club at our church in July. Since I am going back through it, I will be posting some thoughts on my notes, which will probably be repeats of pasts posts I have forgotten I posted when I first read the book…

  • Dan

    The prophetic voice of Frederick Douglass

    Why, we have slavery made part of the religion of the land. Yes, the pulpit there stands up as the great defender of this cursed institution, as it is called.

  • Dan

    Book Review: Jesus is Lord, Caesar is Not

    I received Jesus is Lord Caesar is Not from IVP for the purposes of reading and reviewing the book. I am under no obligation to give a positive review. The book is edited by Scot McKnight and Joseph Modica and features several authors critiquing the thought of the New Testament being “anti-Empire.” They look at the writings of several scholars…