Reflections about Marriage on Good Friday
Last year, my church hosted a workshop on marriage. Being a thoroughly single person, I attended this workshop with some degree of irony. That’s not to say...
The Misfits Theology Club
Dialoguing about the Christian faith
On Deconstruction and Wilderness Wandering
“The greatest way to show gratitude toward God is to serve others.” When these words were spoken by one of my classmates during a group conversation on gratitude,...
May The Energy be with you!
Apologies to Star Wars. I think George Lucas might have gotten it wrong. But if there is a good scientific term to appropriate, The Force sounds a whole...
God is Dead
Time passed. The Bible does not say how many days, or weeks, or months, or even years went by. Perhaps Cain did spend some time thinking through the...
Yes, you actually need to be taught how to think
Seems to me most people see logic as something straightforward. The truth is obvious, or at least superficially apparent, we are told. But is it? Western nations are...
Whose Jesus?
Gabriel and Joanne had quite the epic rap battle about biblical authority. It ended with Joanne making a poignant observation: if faced with a choice between Scripture and...
"Why Have You Forsaken Me"
As we enter Holy Week, the church takes a moment to remember the of the last days of Jesus. In the services of Maundy Thursday, we see Jesus...
How many poor people could that escalator have fed?
I was in a church’s building recently in the Kansas City area, and I saw an escalator in the building. My first thought was, “How many poor...