society
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Section 1: Questing—Seeking and Finding
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5 min read
This is the first of a three-part series covering David Rudel’s Who Really Goes To Hell?—The Gospel You’ve Never Heard. Rudel looks at how Scripture (The Bible) and our understanding of GOD’s purpose and of Jesus (The Gospel) intersect and where they diverge. My introduction can be found here. We often take it as a…
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Pick and choose protestors
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1 min read
Just a quick thought for a Monday morning… Why is it that the millions that protested the Iraq Conflict peacefully for years were virtually ignored by the press and totally ignored by Washington while today’s ‘protesters’, hundreds of angry and abusive anti-tax protesters, are media darlings and have Congress cow-towing to them?
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simplicity
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1 min read
Through Lent, St. Paul’s is holding a Lenten Program about Simplicity. The concept, as I see it, being this: We have complicated lives and live in a complex world, but it need not be so. This complexity separates us from one another and from God. To achieve balance in our lives, we must remove what…
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The Evangelical Brain
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3 min read
Conversations about evangelicalism and intellectualism are decidedly lacking in both. This post is about living with a full brain.
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“Lost” and faith
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2 min read
Belief and parable make “Lost” a unique and singularly spiritual show without peer. Inspired by an article by Peter Carey, I explore the profound that is woven into the fabric of the show.
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A People’s History it is
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5 min read
In Diana Butler Bass’s new book, the author tackles a worthy endeavor–placing the small voices that helped direct the history of the church into their proper and influential context–is an important and worthy practice for our church. The deft way with which Butler Bass navigates this potentially divisive approach makes this one of the most…