Following Jesus in rejecting empire
The world is in a desperate search for somebody to hate. Acts of terror and violence abound all over the planet and it will not do to simply hate the perpetrators of those acts. We must locate our hatred in an entire community of people. There must be a “them” of which we are not…
I recently gave a talk summarizing the book Overturning Tables. If you don’t want to buy the book but have time to listen to me summarize it to a bunch of mission leaders, you’re in luck
The cyberworld is abuzz with the recent Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage. But while some weep and others rejoice, the decision which warrants a shout of elation from all Christ followers remains uncommented upon – the SCOTUS decision dealing a blow to our prison industrial complex. The Christian obsession with sex has once again…
ABOVE PHOTO: WWII Propaganda against Germans It is rather remarkable that neither my wife, nor myself, nor our family experience daily discrimination. It is also remarkable that I’ve never worried about being the victim of a hate crime. Why is this surprising? Because my last name, Bessenecker, is German. My wife has three German grandparents,…
He didn’t lift his feet, he slid them, as if skating on the concrete sidewalk. Maybe he was old, but I couldn’t tell because he looked like a cave man, and it’s hard to read a cave man’s age. Eyes looked out from sunken pools in his head, staring down at the ground where he…