Following Jesus in rejecting empire
The Protestant – Capitalist Fusion Adapted from Overturning Tables by Scott A. Bessenecker. Copyright (c) 2014 by Scott A. Bessenecker. Used by permission of InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL. www.ivpress.com While still in her mid-twenties, Queen Elizabeth had inherited a nearly bankrupt country and a seriously inferior military. She turned to a group of swashbuckling men of valor…
Jesus Visits Wall Street Adapted from Overturning Tables by Scott A. Bessenecker. Copyright (c) 2014 by Scott A. Bessenecker. Used by permission of InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL. www.ivpress.com Each of the four authors of the Gospels tell the story of Jesus from their own perspective. Besides the death and resurrection narrative, there are only five events that…
Was Jesus Apolitical? Adapted from Overturning Tables by Scott A. Bessenecker. Copyright (c) 2014 by Scott A. Bessenecker. Used by permission of InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL. www.ivpress.com Is it really the place of a religious authority to address political or economic systems? Surely, the Church would not take seriously any economist or politician claiming…
Years ago, my grandmother returned to her ancestral home in rural northern Missouri to do some genealogical research. She drove to Kahoka, Missouri, a podunk town whose population has hovered between 1-2,000 for more than a century. Grandma was searching for records of her mother’s birth, so the Clark County officials pulled out the 1900…
Some Reflections on the Eve of the 2020 US Election I often wonder what the spirit in our country felt like in the years leading up to America’s Civil War. Did it feel like this; the way we feel toward one another today? Cavernous divisions existed between family and friends around the issue of slavery,…