When the Good News Isn’t Jesus waded ashore into the muddy banks of humanity in an age ruled by a religious order who justified their spiritual authority by their meticulous obeisance to their self-serving interpretations of ritual law and unyielding judgment of their followers, an economic system that thrived on...
The Problem with Mixing Prophecy with Politics. I come from a long line of Dispensationalists (those who believe the Bible contains a secret code for predicting the events of the end of the world, the Second Coming of Jesus) and I was theologically trained at the mecca of dispensationalism and...
I have been seeing a lot of “yay capitalism, and boo socialism,” from Christians lately and I find it really puzzling. Am I missing something? Why do Christian…s feel the need to shill for capitalism? Does the Bible explicitly instruct us to create free markets? Did Adam Smith write a...
There is a beautiful thing happening at Cornerstone/Plymouth Bethesda that is the realization of a vision, really more a dream, that has been incubating for more than a decade. The dream of an upside-down place where the last are first and the first are last, where the weak can be...
We desire to be a church where people can come together, can challenge and love one another. What do you think of Tom Ehrich’s commentary on the state of the church? “Church should be a safe place — safe to be oneself, safe to make one’s confession, safe to love...