I’ve been disillusioned about a bunch of things (and people) over the years. That is, I had an illusion, in some cases even a delusion about something or someone that eventually proved to be illusory, fake, a sham. Spam as meat comes to mind. Professional wrestling also. Products that claim to rid me of baggy …
Salespersons or Tour Guides?
A change of paradigm might serve to improve the effectiveness of our witness. Instead of Gospel salespersons we might better think of ourselves as spiritual “Tour Guides.” It’s not like we’re selling anything and trying to profit from it, anyway. Right? Our job is to share what we’ve found and tell people where they can …
Love Who?
The enemy-love message is not exactly what you’d call “attractional.” Sadly, it’s easier to gather a crowd with the message about a God who blesses our battles and hates our enemies as much as we do. Fear, anger, and hate are more popular than love and more natural to our darker selves. Unrestricted love is …
Waiting for the World to Change
In his first appearance on Fox News, presumably one of many, the recently elected House Speaker Mike Johnson in conversation with Sean Hannity, posited a unique, never considered before, revelation that there’s something wrong with the human heart and that the scourge of mass shootings can be attributed to that unseen wickedness. After the shooting …
Every Life Matters
I had plenty of time to read while sick for 3 weeks. One of my favorites was Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution by André Trocmé, the Frenchman famous for saving thousands of Jews (mostly children) from the Nazis during World War II. Yad Vashem (the Jewish Holocaust Museum) awarded him and his wife the prestigious …
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