Category: christian life
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What would the Church look like without these two influencers?
If I could extract two things from the American Church and cast them into the Lake of Fire…one would be Dispensational Eschatology and the other would be this Spiritual Warfare stuff. Because I think it has done way, way, way more damage than any good. And rather than looking at our own culpability in the…
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Faith is a seed, not a graft
When there are generations of moral failures in our family, what hope is there for us? It turns out, the shape of our our spiritual family tree looks dramatically different than that of our physical family tree. An example: His great-great grandfather had blood on his hands. His great-grandfather started out strong, but the bloat…
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To the Church in America, 2062
One generation commends your works to another; they tell of your mighty acts. (Ps 145:4) Dear Church in America in the year of our Lord 2062 – Faith is passed on from one generation to the next. As I write these words in 2022, I wonder what elements of the Evangelical faith currently being practiced in…
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I’ve gone AWOL from the Culture War army
It’s been at least 15 years since I’ve gone AWOL (absent without leave) from the culture wars I had been told it was my duty to fight when I was a young Evangelical. I never saw myself as anything but a dutiful foot soldier in that army. My primary interests were always in other areas…
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The false promise of Prosperity Parenting
When Christian Boomers and Gen-Xers became parents, the influential voices of people like Dr. James Dobson and Gary and Anne Marie Ezzo offered us iron-clad principles that seemed to promise parenting success. The rise of the home schooling movement in the 1980’s and 1990’s brought another crop of parenting “experts” to the fore in those…
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Reflections on The Cost of Discipleship – Chapter 3
I was gossiping with a friend, but if I called it “processing” and “debriefing”, then it couldn’t be considered gossip, right? It takes a certain kind of moral gymnastics to pretzel blatant sin into a perfectly reasonable and completely justifiable act of self-care. I could say I’m an Olympic-level gymnast in this regard, but I…