Category: Christian History
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Inerrancy is the Problem Behind the Problems – Part 3
But what happens when the book we’re standing on starts to feel unstable? What happens when weak points appear in the ways we were instructed to read biblical texts? What happens when the so-called ‘doctrine’ of inerrancy we were taught begins to reveal its flaws? What now? What do we do with the Bible?
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Inerrancy is the Problem Behind the Problems – Part 1
Think about the issues American Christians are angry about. It shouldn’t take long for us to see that this anger has its roots – and its justification – in a ‘straightforward reading’ of an ‘inerrant’ Bible.
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Conquest Christianity
I’ve come to wonder if a ‘conquest’ mindset within evangelicalism has made it especially susceptible to the allure of nationalism. The drive to occupy and control territory, the gathering of souls around a flag, the call to work for the glory of the nation, the promise of a future ‘utopia’ for the true believers –…
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Liturgy of Unheralded Saints
:July 18-24
To the One who sees: We have traversed our world unnoticed by the world. We have pursued endeavours, unlauded and unsung. We have walked by unlit roads As mere sojourners and wayfarers…
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Female Submission: Let’s Stop Doing as the Romans Do
When it comes to the position of women in complementarian and fundamentalist circles, we think and act a lot less like Christians and a lot more like Romans.
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The Kingdom Series: Wake the Hell Up to the Kingdom of Heaven
You won’t find the Kingdom through the scope of a gun, but in the firing line. In the margins and the unseen dimensions of the world.
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Is It O.K. to Panic Now?
Facing a potentially unsettling four years, early Christian monasticism provides lessons on how to respond.
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The Voice of the People is the Voice of God?
God doesn’t manufacture political results. Nor is God aloof. But He wants us speak with His voice.
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No King but Caesar?
Our collusions with power throughout history aren’t exactly Christianity’s ‘Greatest Hits’. What would it look like to follow our true master and not the various ‘Caesars’ of our era?