ON Scripture - The Bible
(May 16, 2012) Psalm 1 is trying to provide practical advice about how to be “good” even when it feels like evil is closing in you. Stay on the right path and resist the dark side.
(May 9, 2012) But if you don’t stumble over the line “God knows no partiality,” you’re not paying attention to the jagged edge where the church and the world meet. The very phrase is audacious. NO partiality? Aren’t young people are fleeing...
(May 2, 2012) Often protests and other out of the ordinary events catch us off guard and cause us to reassess our world as it is.
(April 25, 2012) God’s care for us does not mean that we live in a daily paradise, devoid of all troubles. Instead, Psalm 23 confesses that even in the midst of such tribulations, God remains with us.
(April 18, 2012) Jesus welcomes everyone to his table, and how different this is from the practice of Christian hospitality in American politics today.
(April 10, 2012) On the eighth day after Easter, the world looks to you and me to take the first steps to turn the passion of Christ into compassionate change.
(April 3, 2012) They asked a pressing question as they walked toward the grave: “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?” When they neared the tomb they saw that the stone had been rolled aside.
(March 28, 2012) The manner of Jesus’ death tells us much about how his contemporaries viewed his life. At least, it tells us how those in power regarded him. He died a victim of Roman capital punishment, a special form of execution reserved for...
(March 21, 2012) One of the issues that follows us throughout life is that of identity. Who am I? How do I define myself? And then, the surprising realization and question: who defines me?
(March 14, 2012) Of course, establishing insider/outsider criteria is as old as human society. So it should be no surprise that the same tendency to try and determine who is and is not Christian can be found in this most beloved passage of Christian...
