Over the last week, U.S. embassies and facilities around the world have become targets for demonstrations and violence.  First in Libya and now in multiple places, outraged crowds of people protest what they understand to be profoundly offensive and blasphemous portrayals of their religion and its founding prophet.  Reportedly, an Egyptian born Coptic Christian man [...]

What would happen if Jesus, son of God, did it again with respect to the Temple?  What if he overturned the platforms on which purveyors of religious amusement or liturgical diversion plied their trades?  What if he put a strict quarantine on what should be, what in fact has been dedicated as, holy precincts, at [...]

God has cheated you out of what is rightfully yours!  And, God’s way is unnecessarily hard!  These are the primal temptations that targeted the first humans and the FINAL HUMAN.  They continue to target us, and often undo us. God has cheated you or God denies you what is really best for you.  God doesn’t [...]

Most people who claim to be church would agree that in some sense God calls the church to a prophetic role in the world, and especially the part of the world that is their context for ministry.  Prophets stand up and say, “Thus says the Lord.”  By which they mean, among other things, “Here is [...]