Tag: Church

  • Escaping Consumer Christianity

    We live in a culture defined by consuming. Today companies spend billions of dollars to learn and exploit our spending habits. We’d be foolish to think a consumer culture hasn’t…

    Escaping Consumer Christianity
  • Revolutionary Jesus

    2020. What a year. We’re not even finished yet. Maybe you, like me, have found yourself using words like “unprecedented” or “it’s never been like this” to describe your life…

    Revolutionary Jesus
  • Juneteenth and White Christians

    Asking myself, what would I be doing in 1863? How can White Christians celebrate a day like Juneteenth? We should listen, learn, lament & celebrate in solidarity with the African American…

    Juneteenth and White Christians
  • Prophets or Patriots?

    Being Christian Before Being American My ancestor, William Stacy, fought in the Revolutionary War. Legend holds he tore up his British commission papers in the town square & organized a militia.…

    Prophets or Patriots?
  • Seeing Racism

    I had a situation a few years back that has been on my mind in light of the recent deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, but also countless others…

    Seeing Racism
  • 5 Great Quotes: Bonhoeffer

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Theologian & Pastor About Dietrich Bonhoeffer Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) was a German pastor during World War II. He founded the Confessing Church, & resisted National Socialism’s religious policies.…

    5 Great Quotes: Bonhoeffer
  • Pomp and Unusual Circumstance

    A Word to the Class of 2020 You’ve been looking forward to May 2020 for the last 4 years, maybe even longer. The script you were given for these last four…

    Pomp and Unusual Circumstance
  • Our Spaceship Earth

    Earth is home to people, and people matter to Jesus. Apollo 8 shocked the world in 1968. A mission that was supposed to bring man to the moon also brought Earth…

    Our Spaceship Earth
  • What Day Is It Again?

    Now is a perfect moment to start treating time the way Jesus did Mondays feel like Fridays don’t they? We’re trying to keep a sense of normal by keeping pace with…

    What Day Is It Again?
  • Don’t Waste Your Lockdown

    We are works in progress, and God finishes what He starts Football taught me life. It was one school of many that can teach, from art and film to music or…

    Don’t Waste Your Lockdown