Torch Me Up, Scottie

The attack against Christians by Beck may turn out to be the most interesting opportunity for Religion to finally provide some genuine open criticism of itself, and quickly provide the sort of self-correction Christianity so desperately needs. So you go, Jim Wallis, and don’t stop until Christianity is once again the religion of Jesus.

Eternity Road: The Isle of God

One of the more astonishing voids in Christian theology is the abject conceptual poverty and shear lack of knowledge about where God supposedly abides: Paradise. There are just three mentions of Paradise in the Bible, and two of those are actually confused references to other places, while the third is a mere mention of Paradise by Jesus to the thief, …

JESUS RETURNS

The extraordinary event began unfolding at approximately 9 AM EST at the Bainbridge House Ballroom when a man…strode to the podium and exclaimed, “Peace be upon you. I am the person you know as Jesus of Nazareth.”

The Pinocchio Principle

The party of “family values” has become the lock-step party of “NO!” values; has become the purveyors of lies, selfishness, cowardice, and designing hypocrisy. . .

Epiphanies

Yes, even insufferable wags can have genuine epiphanies. So when Chris Matthews thinks he has one on the air and shares it with the rest of us, it’s worth examining if for no other reason than to see if it can help us have one, too.

John Zebedee

    Perhaps no other single family contributed more to the work of the mission of Jesus than that of the Zebedees. The Zebedee brothers, James and John, followed two other brothers, Andrew and Peter, into the apostolic core,  and David Zebedee was indispensable as the organizer and manager of a messenger service for the Master’s work.  This is The …

Yesterday, Today; Always.

Yes. Yesterday was the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Today is our first opportunity since then,  to put his truth to work. And tomorrow, and always. Martin emerged from the crucible of his times speaking with the timeless voice of eternal truth, and he spoke it fearlessly until the fearful took it from us;  now is the time to bring …