Following Jesus in rejecting empire
Some thoughts about each of the podcast interviews
Experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic these last few weeks has reminded me of a section of my unpublished novel, Nocturn: The Ethiopian Orthodox. In it I describe the shift that occurs in a population as a disease moves from bubonic form, carried by fleas, to pneumonic form, carried through the air. In it the gap between…
Evangelicalism has degenerated in the US church. Why stay? https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZXhwZXJpZW50aWFsZGlzY2lwbGVzaGlwLmNvbS90aGUtYXJ0LW9mLXZlbm4_Zm9ybWF0PXJzcw&episode=NWI2ZGU5YjdlYzRlYjcwOGM0MDgxZTA4OjVkMGQ5ZWVkN2FlZTQ3MDAwMTU3NTNiZTo1ZTY3YmNiZTc4NDU2MjBkNTY3ZmE3NmU&ved=0CAIQkfYCahcKEwiI4MazypDoAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ&hl=en
I chose into the Christian faith as an adult – well almost. I was 17. Even though I’d been born into a Christian family and had held a genuine fascination with Jesus since childhood, I didn’t actively chose into the faith until the first week or so of my freshman year at Iowa State University.…
We live under threat of nuclear fusion The best laid plans in a world of confusion Are randomly scuttled without a solution Control is an illusion – I lost my work by my computer rebooting I dodged Corona but walked into a shooting Planted a garden, then a tornado uprooting Plotted my destiny ‘til chaos…
I was at an international conference where an African speaker said, “Why are Americans so interested in coming to Africa to solve poverty? Poverty is not a problem. Greed, now that’s a problem! Maybe Africans should come to America to help them solve greed.” I love provocative statements like that. I know that poverty is…