Following Jesus in rejecting empire
Hate crimes perpetrated by fellow Christians. The recent attacks in Atlanta committed by a young Evangelical. Christian insurrectionists storming the capitol. These incidents and others have stirred me to evaluate my own ministry as a full time Christian worker. How has my theology, my discipleship or my service to Christians allowed these things to exist…
A Christian’s allegiance to country, to the point of killing fellow Christians who are allied to their own countries, is nowhere more clear than in World War I. With the English cry of “God save the King,” raised up against Germans bearing, “Gott mit uns” (God with us) stamped upon their belt buckle, you wonder…
There’s been a lot said about tribalism lately, mostly bad. I’m not a sports guy, but when I listen to sports fans, I see our tribalistic tendencies at work (by the way, you know the word “fan” is short for “fanatic: a person exhibiting excessive enthusiasm and intense uncritical devotion toward some controversial matter.”) But…