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Memorial Day
This is Memorial Day in the United States. It’s a great day to be an American. And a dangerous day to be a Christian. It’s the sort of national holiday that creates remembrance of freedom, celebration...
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Henry V and the Kingdom of God
We need to understand the Biblical picture of the reign of God or, as Christians, we will enact poor parodies of that reign as we stumble our way toward Christian faithfulness. I confess, all of the...
View ArticleThe World in Miniature
The ancients understood something about the world that we, too often, don’t. They understood that the patterns of being and interacting in each sphere of the world were establishing ways of being and...
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The [choose 1: Eagle / Dove] Has Landed
Once upon a time there was a people of tremendous military might. Their strength and ferocity was marked by the king of birds–the eagle. This great people proclaimed itself to be the bringer of the...
View ArticleOn Blowing Up the Narrative of Blowing Things Up
I was talking with a friend today. She relayed a conversation with another friend. The radical, change-the-world kind of friend. The kind of people I like. (Well, most of the time…) They had been...
View ArticleGod of Peace and Justice
This weekend I’m giving a talk on the God of Peace and Justice. As if on cue, the writing of this talk is now punctuated by news that Israel has launched a ground invasion into Gaza and rumors are...
View ArticleClaiming Jesus: Benefits and Dangers
This week our house church group read through Isa 34-35. The two chapters juxtapose starkly antithetical visions of what God’s vindication of God’s people looks like. In Isa 34 there is the negative...
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