The Content of Overturning Tables for Free
I recently gave a talk summarizing the book Overturning Tables. If you don’t want to buy the book but have time to listen to me summarize it to a bunch of mission leaders, you’re in luck
Following Jesus in rejecting empire
Author: Scott Bessenecker
Why Christians Should Be Elated Over the Supreme Court Ruling
The cyberworld is abuzz with the recent Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage. But while some weep and others rejoice, the decision which warrants a shout of elation from all Christ followers remains uncommented upon – the SCOTUS decision dealing a blow to our prison industrial complex. The Christian obsession with sex has once again…
We Are All Dishonest Murderers
ABOVE PHOTO: WWII Propaganda against Germans It is rather remarkable that neither my wife, nor myself, nor our family experience daily discrimination. It is also remarkable that I’ve never worried about being the victim of a hate crime. Why is this surprising? Because my last name, Bessenecker, is German. My wife has three German grandparents,…
Hidden
He didn’t lift his feet, he slid them, as if skating on the concrete sidewalk. Maybe he was old, but I couldn’t tell because he looked like a cave man, and it’s hard to read a cave man’s age. Eyes looked out from sunken pools in his head, staring down at the ground where he…
Faded Photograph
My grandmother used to say we had some Cherokee blood She recalled her great-grandmother Sitting on the porch and smoking a corncob pipe But that memory is old and worn Trampled under the Swedish and the German and the English It was the European roots to the family tree which were nourished Those were the…