The Twin Towers of Integrity and Goodness
Today, September 11, 2018, I’m concerned that we as a nation are facing a more sinister and complex long-term danger than we were seventeen years ago:
Category: politics
Should we all just get off the Internet… or help clean the place up?
My issue is that I am in the business of sharing light, inspiration, encouragement, hope, koinonia, and meaning – yet the media I engage to get my message out is more often used to spread darkness, division, discouragement, disillusion, hate, and confusion.
Real Men reject the false narrative that knows little of humility and kindness…
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. –
“Je dénonce!” Not so fast – Jesus recommends another way
When ‘reporting’ becomes indistinguishable from shouting ‘FIRE!’ in a crowded theater.
The Weight of Freedom #July4th
we are free from tyranny so that we may serve and encourage and offer refuge and – gladly – bear witness to the light.
the day we launched a community conversation around gun violence
We cannot legislate morality and we cannot pass a bill that stops irresponsibility. But we can work together to be more of a connected, concerned, supportive, accountable, mutually encouraging community.
Exporting fear instead of Gospel – where “The Christian Right” gets it wrong
The most interesting nugget I picked up from our visit was this observation by one of the Palestinian Christian leaders: “Our biggest threat is not from Israel,” he said. “It’s not the Jews who scare us so much as American Evangelicals.”
please stop misrepresenting Christianity to gain political power :-(
I object to the falsehood that Christianity lines up with nationalistic, jingoistic, inflammatory propaganda – and I object to the idea that opposing the president on moral grounds makes a person anti-Christian, anti-freedom, and/or anti-America.
shove ’em, love ’em, or send them all home? #Congress
I guess we can love on our legislators… or maybe we could shove them down a steeper flight of stairs? Or better yet we can send them all home and get a new set. But this time lets make sure they’re at least capable of learning.
Music, spiritual truth, and forgiveness
Why do so many relationships fall apart? Because we fail to practice the essential principles of Christ’s teachings.
