A short list of questions we Christians need to be better about asking ourselves regarding our beliefs: How might I be wrong? How might the passion of my beliefs regarding an issue be causing me to ignore errors about my beliefs themselves? Do my beliefs about social...
Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control, power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often are given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food...
We cannot love issues, but we can love people, and the love of people reveals to us the way to deal with issues.
When we refuse to have nuanced conversations about deeply complex issues and choose instead to impose our narrow categories of right and wrong upon others, we become incapable of ever moving forward to work together for a better world. We must do better.
Some issues are not left or right or liberal versus conservative. They are right versus wrong.
The issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree. We Christians are called to use the 'weapons of grace,' which means treating even our opponents with love and respect.
So what are we inviting ourselves and others into? For those who’ve been out for a while, what are we inviting them back to? ...When we can step out of our institutional concerns, reconnecting with the essence of our faith, we remember the Way of life to which Jesus...
White Christianity suffers from a bad case of Disney Princess Theology. As each individual reads Scripture they see themselves as the princess in every story. They are Esther, never Xerxes or Haman. They are Peter, never Judas. They are the woman anointing Jesus,...
To stay calm is to be so aware of yourself that your response to the situation is not to the anxiety of the people around you but to the actual issue at hand. from Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory
Jesus was never "prone to wander" or "prone to leave the God he loved." He came to earth to settle that issue once and for all. He came to set us free, that we too might be transformed from "prone to wander" to "prone to love."