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...
It is Christ who is to be exalted, not our feelings. We will know Him by obedience, not by emotions.
The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never forget the presence of Christ.
If America’s original sin is slavery, the original sin of the church is anti-Judaism and antisemitism. Before the New Testament was fully written. we see evidence of it... If you look at the passion accounts in the four Gospels in chronological order, you see Rome...
The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection — and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth. from The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See
Jesus couldn’t have been clearer. Faith is love, inclusion, servanthood, submission. People will always turn against the vulnerable. But they don’t get to call their behavior “Christian.” Love means feeding.
Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself.
The church isn't losing the next generation of Christians because of pluralism, secularism, or liberalism. The church is losing the next generation of Christians because of pursuing political power by any mean necessary rather than the power of Christ's love with...
If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to just pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that...
And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without Christ is the real death, that to die with Christ the only life? from The Magnificent...