Political Idols and Election Day Communion
I hope, no matter how you choose to vote, you will also choose to remember your citizenship in the Body of Christ – your membership in a different kind of ‘body politic’. Check out more about Election Day Communion and get involved…
Lament: Neil Postman and A Culture of Distraction
We must learn again to weep before GOD…to stop looking to call down fire on a nation that is wandering in darkness. We can never forget that Judas was a Zealot and Peter did not build the early church until he was broken by his own pride before the loving face of Jesus. The only way forward is a journey of lament…
An Eternal Revolution and A Crucified King
Jesus had indeed come to unleash GOD’s kingdom but it was an upside-down kingdom…The greatest irony is that Jesus didn’t come to overthrow Rome but to disarm the empire that is rooted in our human hearts…
A Tea Party, An Occupation and People of the Incarnation
Maybe the answer is not a tea party or an occupation or any protest movement after all. I believe we must give ourselves, as disciples of Jesus, to another movement – to His living Body – a people who are again re-incarnating a kingdom not of this world…
Occupy Babylon
We do not want a replacement for the current system of global capitalism, we want something altogether different, something that is hard to imagine in the midst of Empire…
Culture Wars and Peter’s Sword
What is the nature of our true warfare when JESUS tells us to love our enemies? It is first a battle within ourselves. What is the nature of true reform and revolution when JESUS says His kingdom is not of this world? It is first a struggle with GOD in the chaos of our own lives…
