During the season of Lent we wait with Jesus as he awaits execution. Our waiting, however, is not a passive waiting—just being there as detached observers. No, it’s an active, intense, strenuous waiting with Jesus. If we can use modern imagery, we join Jesus on death row and it’s as if we are waiting for …
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Set Free to Set Free!
I remember often thinking to myself, “how could anyone with even an ounce of decency, let alone the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, seriously support slavery?” I asked myself that question after watching the celebrated Roots miniseries years ago. I asked myself that question when I read or heard about the heinous Apartheid system …
FORGETTING TO REMEMBER
I enjoy the” hinge” connecting the old and new year. For a couple weeks we commonly look back to recall the most memorable or important or funny or stupid things that happened in the year past. Likewise, we anticipate the things we will do in the New Year—both the things we vow not to do …
THE MASSACRE OF INNOCENTS
16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. 17 Then what was said through the prophet …
A Vast Cosmic Conspiracy?
We were in the security line waiting to submit our carryon luggage and bodies to the TSA screeners when I heard, “Yeh, you wouldn’t believe it, back of every election it’s just a struggle between various contingents of the demonic. Actually, it’s all clear if you just know how to de-cypher the universe. Did you …