I’ve got a new post at Wrecked for the Ordinary today entitled “Jesus: Revolutionary of Revolutionaries.” Go check it out.
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Posted in America, American Christianity, American Culture, Christian Ethics, Christianity, Culture, Homelessness, Justice, Life, Ministry, Poverty, Religion, Social Justice on April 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve spent the last, roughly, two years working at a homeless shelter. In fact, this is the first Monday in a long while that I haven’t spent at the shelter doing things like helping homeless men create and stick to a budget, look for work, gain self-esteem, and learn life skills like cooking, opening [...]
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Posted in America, American Christianity, American Culture, Christian Ethics, Christianity, Culture, Justice, News, Peace, Politics, Religion, Social Justice, tagged Barack Obama, Torture on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you haven’t heard, President Obama released four memos from the Bush administration approving of and describing acts of torture used by our government. You can read about it here and here and here. I was asked by the people at the God’s Politics blog to write a piece regarding this announcement since [...]
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Posted in American Christianity, Christian Ethics, Christianity, Devotions, Discipleship, Homelessness, Hospitality, Jesus, Justice, Life, Love, Ministry, Politics, Poverty, Prayer, Racial Reconciliation, Relationships, Religion, Social Justice, Spirituality, Theology on April 16, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Yesterday I posted Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove’s and Shane Claiborne’s 50 suggestions on loving our neighbors/being the answer to our prayers. (I’m excited that there’s a book now out on this topic since I preached a sermon with this idea, that we are the answer to our neighbor’s prayers, just a couple months ago.) [...]
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Posted in American Christianity, Christian Ethics, Christianity, Devotions, Discipleship, Jesus, Justice, Love, Ministry, Poverty, Religion, Social Justice, Spirituality, tagged Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove on April 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I recently came across this wonderfully helpful list by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove for all of those who say, “I want to love and serve others, but I don’t know how or where to start!” Well, here’s an extremely helpful list. Pick one and start. Oh, and go ahead and leave any other ideas [...]
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Posted in America, American Christianity, Book Review, Books, Christianity, Church of Christ, History, Religion, School, tagged Christian America and the Kingdom of God, Kingdom of God, Messiah College, Pepperdine University, Richard T. Hughes on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m very excited for the release of Christian America and the Kingdom of God by Richard T. Hughes on July 22, 2009. Dr. Hughes is currently a professor at Messiah College, but he was my Church History professor while I was at Pepperdine University. Dr. Hughes has devoted much of his scholarship to [...]
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Posted in America, American Christianity, American Culture, Christian Ethics, Christianity, Church of Christ, Culture, Devotions, Discipleship, Homelessness, Justice, Ministry, Poverty, Religion, Social Justice, Spirituality on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I came across this wonderful poem, “Outside the Camp,” written by Brad East. Brad’s a guy who I’ve gotten to know through my blog and he has some really good insights at his blog Resident Theology. You should definitely check it out. He’s a fellow CofC’er and a student at Candler [...]
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As a member of the churches of Christ I am pretty unfamiliar with the Christian/liturgical calendar. We only recognize Christmas and Easter (and some of us don’t even recognize Christmas because it’s not really Jesus’ birthday!), and I am therefore pretty ignorant about what the other holidays and traditions are. For example, the [...]
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Posted in American Christianity, Christianity, Church of Christ, Desmond Tutu, Devotions, Martin Luther King Jr., Religion, Spirituality, Theology, tagged Dorothy Day, Evangelicals, Henri Nouwen, Jim Wallis, John Howard Yoder, Liberation Theology, Mother Teresa, Oscar Romero, Ron Sider, Social Gospel, Walter Rauschenbusch on February 24, 2009 | 10 Comments »
This post was spurred by a conversation Des and I had before falling asleep last night.
I think it is very helpful to know where people come from and why they think what they think. To get to know someone’s heroes and influences says much about them. So, in that spirit, here [...]
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Posted in America, American Christianity, American Culture, Christianity, Culture, Politics, Prayer, Race, Racial Reconciliation, Racism, Religion, Theology, tagged Barack Obama, Inauguration 2009, Joseph Lowery, Rick Warren on January 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »
All of the hoopla about prayer heading into President Obama’s inauguration was about the choice for Rick Warren to be give the opening prayer. While I appreciated Mr. Warren’s prayer, I think he was more inclusive than people expected him to be and I appreciated his willingness to ask for national forgiveness (although I [...]
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A couple of summers ago when I was in Uganda I noticed nativity scenes being sold all over the place. I almost bought one several times, but never did. It is a decision I regret now. My wife and I have started collecting nativity scenes from around the world and hope to [...]
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