Following Jesus in rejecting empire
Some thoughts about each of the podcast interviews
We interrupt this blog series to bring you an important message. Political Idolatry When I wrote Overturning Tables in 2013-14, I did not recognize the political idolatry which was brewing in America and has now come to a flashpoint. I wrote the book thinking of Christians who spoke about Jesus as if he was simply…
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…