Following Jesus in rejecting empire
I’m exploring disappointment in this short series of posts. Disappointment is a universal experience and becomes fuel for discouragement and depression. In today’s post I’ll look at my disappointment with the Church. That’s a capital C Church, not a local church or a denomination or even the Church in America, though each of those may…
Revival will always be marked by the Church coming out of Empire. Let me repeat that: Revival will ALWAYS be marked by the Church coming out of Empire; because the heart of revival is the increase of Christ’s government and his shalom (in the words of Isaiah) and the heart of Empire is about the…
Barely a month goes by without some news item about a sex scandal involving a Christian leader. In the first few days of October Christianity Today reported on disturbing allegations surrounding Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias and the BBC published an article about the Church of England fostering a culture which allowed sexually deviant clergy to…
Evangelicalism has degenerated in the US church. Why stay? https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZXhwZXJpZW50aWFsZGlzY2lwbGVzaGlwLmNvbS90aGUtYXJ0LW9mLXZlbm4_Zm9ybWF0PXJzcw&episode=NWI2ZGU5YjdlYzRlYjcwOGM0MDgxZTA4OjVkMGQ5ZWVkN2FlZTQ3MDAwMTU3NTNiZTo1ZTY3YmNiZTc4NDU2MjBkNTY3ZmE3NmU&ved=0CAIQkfYCahcKEwiI4MazypDoAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ&hl=en
Detail of a Diego Rivera mural in the Palacio Nacional in Mexico City Both Dorothy Day and St. Augustine are credited with saying something like, “The Church may be a whore but she’s my mother.” I appreciate the sentiment. Beyond simply decrying the infidelity of the Church, the author was acknowledging a relationship to her,…