If you haven’t taken the time to watch the music video to Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” you need to. It isn’t just another music video dreamed up by a marketing team to sell records. This video is an art piece. As with any good …
Read MoreMy New Book is Here
Releasing a new a book is what I imagine giving birth is like minus the excruciating pain. The idea was conceived pretty quickly and now for “nine months” I have been laboring and struggling to write and edit and rewrite and edit and rewrite and …
Read MoreBook Review: How Jesus Saves the World From Us
Morgan Guyton is on a journey. He has left behind Christian fundamentalism with its debilitating toxins and has trekked his way through the expanse of God’s wide-open grace. His book How Jesus Saves the World From Us serves, in part, as a chronicle of that …
Read MoreLent 2015
Lent comes early this year. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lenten season, is tomorrow. Christmas Day is the same day every year on the calendar. Easter moves around…something about the phases of the moon. I’m not sure. Lent has been a part of the …
Read MoreI Believe in Hell
I recently responded to a member of my church who was asking questions about hell. I sent him a 750-word email in response to his questions about hell, who goes there, and how long it lasts. This response was not my first, nor will it …
Read MoreSubstance and Evidence
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1 KJV) Faith is a human attribute. Faith is an essential human attribute. God has no need of faith because nothing is unseen for him, but we earth-bound creatures …
Read MoreN.T. Wright on the Ordination of Practicing Homosexuals
The acceptability of homosexuality is becoming one of the defining issues of our day. Gay marriage has become a polarizing cultural issue with current trends showing a rise in the support for the legalization of same-sex unions. A recent ABC News/Washington Post survey showed 58% …
Read MoreLent 2010
Today is the eve of Ash Wednesday (some traditions call it Shrove Tuesday). It is the day before Lent begins. It is the final day of preparation for a 40-day season of prayer and fasting that will lead up to Resurrection Sunday, the ultimate day …
Read MoreA Refocused Hope
I have been reading and listening to N.T. Wright for a few years now. During the 40 days of lent earlier this year, I read through his massive work on the resurrection: The Resurrection of the Son of God. I have also read Simply Christian …
Read MoreIncarnation: Holding on to Our Tradition
An appreciation of tradition puts us on the road towards humility. Pride listens to the council of self-reliance. You don’t need to know how we got here. Just do your thing. Like a 17 year-old rock n’ roller, who wants to start a garage band, …
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