Following Jesus in rejecting empire
Some thoughts about each of the podcast interviews
Was Jesus Apolitical? Adapted from Overturning Tables by Scott A. Bessenecker. Copyright (c) 2014 by Scott A. Bessenecker. Used by permission of InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL. www.ivpress.com Is it really the place of a religious authority to address political or economic systems? Surely, the Church would not take seriously any economist or politician claiming…
Years ago, my grandmother returned to her ancestral home in rural northern Missouri to do some genealogical research. She drove to Kahoka, Missouri, a podunk town whose population has hovered between 1-2,000 for more than a century. Grandma was searching for records of her mother’s birth, so the Clark County officials pulled out the 1900…
Some Reflections on the Eve of the 2020 US Election I often wonder what the spirit in our country felt like in the years leading up to America’s Civil War. Did it feel like this; the way we feel toward one another today? Cavernous divisions existed between family and friends around the issue of slavery,…
I thought it might be a good exercise to push beyond the Covid and US election headlines just to stay in touch with the reality that there is a world outside these big news items. I understand that the US election will have global ramifications. And I know that the current pandemic is a very…
Barely a month goes by without some news item about a sex scandal involving a Christian leader. In the first few days of October Christianity Today reported on disturbing allegations surrounding Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias and the BBC published an article about the Church of England fostering a culture which allowed sexually deviant clergy to…