Following Jesus in rejecting empire
Author: Scott Bessenecker
The Fall
I think I know why God allows evil in this world, and why God did not stop the first humans from making a bad decision. This is due to the fact that I had a stroke a couple of weeks ago and was assigned an inpatient rehabilitation center. In the center, I was deemed a…
Slaughter of the Innocents
On December 28 the Western Church celebrates the feast of the holy innocents (December 29 in the Eastern Church). It is a day to remember the children who were killed by Israel’s King Herod after learning of the birth of a rival king. Herod was so threatened by this news that he ordered the execution…
The Gospel is a Place
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The Land of God
[Photo Credit: Calvina Nguyen, @calvina and @yourbrandspark] This is something I wrote years ago after visiting a tee-shirt factory in Kolkata. Women from the largest red-light district in Asia leave their jobs as sex workers to work there. Everyone is paid the same living wage regardless of skill. They are given savings and retirement accounts…