“Church History Is a Beautiful Melody Imperfectly Performed… Rejecting Christianity based on the terrible performance of some Christians is like dismissing Bach after hearing my feeble attempts to play his Cello Suites. … The original message of Christ resounded through the centuries like a beautiful melody, even as many Christians failed to play in tune.” …
Restoring the “Good” in Good News
Identifying as “Christian” makes us complicit in the debacles committed by other Christians in the world yesterday, today, and forever. Object to it all you want but our track record is entwined with everyone else who identifies as Christian. Sure, we’ve contributed mountains of good to the world but we’ve also dumped a lot of …
The Necessity of Authenticity
Does it bother you that when they think about Christians a lot of people see us as angry, judgmental, right-wing finger-pointers with political agendas? You might not think this is a fair characterization; but it’s a reputation that, by association, is ours. Maybe it’s true that for every individual who earned the world’s mistrust there …
Can Donald Trump Be Trusted and Does it Matter? (Part 1 of 3)
“When some large number of the people in a country buy into this [presidential lying] -- if they make up their own narrative -- then a society begins to fracture in the deepest way. That is what is going on, and he's doing this day after day after day, and it's taking a terrific toll …
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What God is Like (Musings on the character of God) #4
No bad days and no bad parts… “Holy, holy, holy…” Revelation 4:8 Everyone has a character. We have either a good character or a bad one, or – most likely – a mixture of both. We’ve all used the figure of speech, “That guy has character,” or, “She has no character at all.” But in …
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