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Is an Other-Oriented Church Possible?
Last week I had a good conversation with an old college friend on the subject of Church. To be fair, there was a lot of venting and criticizing going down. This was because we both saw American...
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Barabbas Comparison & Jesus’ Significance
My last post I considered how Western Christianity denigrated Barabbas by taking Barabbas’ ethnicity out of the equation as well as ignoring the socio-political context. This was all compounded by a...
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Prophetic Priorities for the Poor and Democratic Duty Dichotomies: A Spin Off
One area for me that makes the discussion concerning Christian responsibility for the poor more of a complex one, is the reality that we do not live under Caesar and the Roman Empire, but rather in...
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Emptying Whiteness: Engaging In Absurd Christian Social Performance
The reality of whiteness affording privilege in America continues to be a touchy subject in our nation. While many (not all) would agree that minorities are marginalized and discriminated against,...
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Baby Jesus Presented in the Temple: Luke 2:21-39
At the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angels before he was conceived in the womb. Now when the time came for their purification according to the...
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The Will Of God: More Abstractions So We Can Avoid Following Jesus
My title says it all, I probably don’t have to say another word… but I will. I have grown up hearing Christians talk a lot about aligning themselves to the ‘will of God’. People wrestle constantly over...
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Are We Celebrating Easter Right?
For Easter, many preachers will get into their pulpits and tell their congregations that the appropriate response to Jesus’ death and resurrection is gratitude. We must be thankful for forgiveness (for...
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John Howard Yoder: On Withdrawing to the Artificial Suburbs
While discussing the various Jewish sects during the time of Jesus, John Howard Yoder, zones in on the communities that produced the Dead Sea scrolls, most often referred to by Biblical scholars as the...
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Why do you call me Lord?: Praxis and Foundations
In America, it is common to hear people comment on how hard it must be to be a Christian overseas where persecution is rampant. Unfortunately, in response many begin cheering patriotically because of...
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer On Our Imaginary God and the Challenge of Immersing...
For many people, the Incarnation of Christ means very little. That is because the American Christian doesn’t look to Jesus as the Revelation of God, but rather people come with prior pseudo-knowledge...
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New Christian Century Post: Hate Crime
We are endlessly being misdirected in search of the crude “hate crime”. After centuries of racial oppression and violence, our society eventually became uncomfortable with the overtness of the racism...
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