What’s in a Name?
When someone’s name is taken away, that person is dehumanized. In a very real way, our name is our identity. No one has the right to take it away or change it.
Category: Current Events
Pastors & Prophets, or Political Pundits?
My worst fear — and it is well-founded — is that the white church will continue to be influenced and shaped more by partisan political rhetoric than by the God-ordained, Biblically drenched, Jesus-centered pastors and prophetic Christian voices God has placed in our lives for such a time as this.
Stop Spreading Conspiracies
These times call for discernment, not spreading unproven theories.
A Teetering Contraption? (George Will)
You are more than “a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.”
Quarantine Letters: Illusion of Independence
The current COVID-19 pandemic is revealing the limits of our independence. Despite our cultural rhetoric, we are biologically, psychologically, and spiritually communal creatures. Autonomy is an illusion. From the very beginning, God designed us to exist interdependently.
Quarantine Letters: Illusion of Control
So much of our growth happens through pain, and that pain comes in two forms. Pain we choose is called a discipline, while pain we do not choose is called a trial. Neither kind should be wasted.
