IMAGINE A “CHRISTIAN” CONGRESS

According to the Pew Research Center, just under 88% of members of Congress identify as Christian (87.8%) compared with 63% of the U.S. population.  In addition, less than 5% of the Congress identify as religiously unaffiliated (e.g., humanist or unwilling to say) compared with 33% of adults in the U.S. today. ** Let the findings …

Christmas Transformation

The message of Christmas means that things are not what they seem, that a new world has dawned so that we find ourselves on the front edge of powerful and beautiful realities worthy of the Maker who became like the made in order to re-make everything better than new.  In the jubilant words of Mother …

WHEN EXILES SING ZION’S SONG

Earthquakes, coup d’état, and plague convert citizens into refugees, and homeland into exile, as has happened last week in Haiti and Afghanistan.  Against such painful backdrop, the People of God in Jesus Messiah have a song to sing that offers hope from a deeper and wider story.  Consider how. The ancient people of God experienced …

A Modest Proposal for Christ Followers on Inauguration Day

I am writing with our current political circumstances in mind, the day before a new President takes office in the U.S.  He will do so in a nation deeply divided over Presidential politics.  Many Christ following persons hold extreme opposite views from those of other brothers and sisters in Christ.  Here’s how extreme: some feel …

When the Towers Fell–A Prayer for 9/11

  God over all, when the towers fell it seemed our world changed. We remember where we were when we first heard, when we saw the fearsome sight, when what we might have thought unassailable crumbled to dust. The shock and awe of those scenes haunt us still. Yet, as we draw near to you …