-
·
Predatory Society – A Pathology of Cruelty
In a challenging new essay for Eudaimonia & Co., Umair Haque names 5 social pathologies of collapse. And I think they can kickstart a conversation around our culture’s greatest needs. This is my reflection of the fifth pathology: a predatory society. In movies, an easy way to get the audience to connect with the characters on screen is to show…
-
·
Extreme Capitalism – A Pathology of Exploitation
In a challenging new essay for Eudaimonia & Co., Umair Haque names 5 social pathologies of collapse. And I think they can kickstart a conversation around our culture’s greatest needs. This is my reflection of the fourth pathology: extreme capitalism. Of all the pathologies effecting us, this is the most divisive. And perhaps the most obvious. To root out why…
-
·
Taught to Share
27. Christians should be taught to love our creation and common space more than their own homes. The great theme of the Bible is God’s great reconciliation with the whole world. Not just people named Steve. From the beginning we see a constant focus on building a community of reconciliation, justice, and love: God creates…
-
·
The God of Community
18. For God’s greatest activity is in the form of community, as small as twos and threes. I’m going to get right to the point with you. Our primary concern is off base and our solutions are bad. The church is getting it’s view of redemption wrong, which makes it impossible to fix our problem of…
-
·
The Idolatry of Individualism
11. And our communities have driven the divine into individual pursuits. If the command is to love God and neighbor, and if Jesus is present when we are together, and the missio dei (mission of God) is to build the kin-dom, then individualism is the stumbling block, the temptation for power, and anti-Christ. Individualism defined Let…
-
·
When we’re so focused on ourselves, we forget to be people.
The other morning, as I took my kids to the bus stop, I saw a distillation of our present situation in these brief moments at the start of my day. A simple moment. One mistake. Then another. And a third. Our mornings are that strange mixture of rushing and waiting anyway. We were there with…
-
·
The Unbearable Lightness of Meing
How selfish culture has made a mockery of religious freedom It was just a little thing. Three words: a phrase. The extending of rights. And yet, we all knew what it meant. Things were changing. A lot. All About Me We’ve been selfish a long time. More than a few decades. The Gordon Geckoification of…
-
·
I Was a Guest on Padre’s Pods!
Last week I was interviewed by a good friend of mine, Sean Maloney for his podcast, Padre’s Pods! We talked about the cult of independence in response to Joy Bennett’s piece “Independence: The False Gospel Destroying American Christianity,” critiquing the culture’s demand for independence, I shared my love for Special K through a personal story, and…