I couldn’t help but share a piece from Woody Allen’s book, Getting Even, and make a few select comments of my own. Allen’s hilarious satire contains excerpts from what he calls the memoirs of Hitler’s barber named “Friedrich Schmeed,” whom he labels "the best-known barber in wartime Germany." In one passage, Allen quotes the barber as …
James on Justice (An Appeal for Classless Christianity) James 1:12-2:7
Here are some sound-bytes from my audio podcast on these verses quoted here to entice you to listen the brief teaching in the series I’m doing on Classless Christianity. The "classless" kind of Christianity is the kind where rich and poor can look each other in the eye as brothers. It's the kind where the …
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Contemplation
I’ve always been weak on waiting, not just waiting on God, but waiting on––or for––just about anyone or anything. If there’s such a thing as a “gift of waiting” I either didn’t get that one or I did but I buried it somewhere along the line so as not to have to use it. …
James on Justice (An Appeal for Classless Christianity) James 1:9-11
I'm doing a commentary through James’ Epistle with an emphasis on justice and the kind of Christianity that sees everyone the same––a classless Christianity. I put the highlights here in the blog and then unpack it in my podcast. James 1:9-11 is the key passage for this episode/post: Believers in humble circumstances ought to take …
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What Would Bonhoeffer Do?
Most Christians consider pastor, theologian, activist, and martyr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, to have been a great man. He spent two years in prison for joining the plot to assassinate the Führer and was executed by the Nazi regime at the Flossenbürg concentration camp on April 9, 1945, just two weeks before the United States liberated the camp. …
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