The Church is God saying, "I'm throwing a banquet, and all the mismatched, messed-up people are invited. Here, have some wine."
04171 – Churches and God’s Banquets
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04146 – Death & Resurrection
Death and resurrection. It’s the impossibility around which every other impossibility of the Christian faith orbits. Baptism declares that God is in the business of bringing dead things back to life, so if you want in on God’s business, you better prepare to follow...
03702 – Embrace the Mystery
It's a frightful thing - thinking you have to get God right in order to get God to love you, thinking you're always one error away from damnation. It's a kind of legalism, really... How ironic. The very condition of humanity is to be wrong about God. The moment we...
03690 – Taking the Risk
I am a Christian because the story of Jesus is still the story I'm willing to risk being wrong about.
03476 – God Became Like Us
We could not become like God, so God became like us. God showed us how to heal instead of kill, how to mend instead of how to destroy, how to love instead of hate, how to live instead of long for more. When we nailed God to a tree, God forgave. And when we buried God...
03408 – Patriarchy Protects Men, not Women
Patriarchy isn’t about protecting women; it’s about protecting men. It's about preserving male rule over the home, church, and society, often at the expense of women.
03018 – God’s Kingdom is Like…
This is what God's kingdom is like: a bunch of outcasts and oddballs gathered at a table, not because they are rich or worthy or good, but because they are hungry, because they said yes. And there's always room for more.
03005 – Complementarianism = Patriarchy
Complementarianism isn’t working—in marriages and in church leadership— because it’s not actually complementarianism; it’s patriarchy. And patriarchy doesn’t work because God created both men and women to reflect God's character and God's sovereignty over creation,...
02925 – Letting People In
The apostles remembered what many modern Christians tend to forget--that what makes the gospel offensive isn't who it keeps out but who it lets in.
02843 – Washing Feet? Or Waging War?
I've been watching people with golden crosses around their necks and on their lapels shout at the TV about how serving gay and lesbian people is a violation of their “sincerely-held religious beliefs.” And I can't help but laugh at the sad irony of it. Two-thousand...