I wonder if we might think differently about immigration matters if Jesus were an immigrant. Often our settled ways of thinking about issues, and therefore our responses to them, suffer disruption when we learn that the “issue” has happened to a loved one. No one I know champions divorce because everyone knows how devastating a …
Category Archives: The Good News
FOR LOVE OF THE PHARISEES
It is common to rail against the Pharisees in our churches. Pharisees embody everything that goes wrong in the life of a “missional church.” Pharisees gather herds of sacred cows and solemnly lead them to pasture, carefully tend their bruises, and eagerly exalt their status among the other, ordinary and mundane bovine. Pharisees travel far …
WHY MLK DAY MATTERS!
As I write this the U.S. is poised to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day, commemorating the life and accomplishments of Dr. King for the cause of human rights in the USA and around the world. I suspect, however, that the NFL championship games, with Super Bowl stakes, have captured the minds and hearts of …
All We Got was Jesus!
We decided that we wouldn’t give each other gifts this year. There were good reasons. For one, we already have a lot. In fact, most everything we could want, within reason, we have. Then, also, we have just moved to a new place, in a sense giving ourselves a new home. Finally and more importantly, …
The Un-affordable Care Act
I believe that no person should lack care, especially when vulnerable to sickness, pain and death. I believe that someone needs to do something—no, many need to do something about the people lost in systems that don’t work, last in terms of priority, and least among the most noticed and esteemed. I believe that injustice …