CultureChristianity & Culture

The Urban Exodus and Exile

| 12 min read

New York City—my home—is a cramped, chaotic cacophony of blaring sirens and swarming, murmuring crowds, and not to mention expensive. In Houston or Los Angeles, thick, slithering, concrete highways wrap around almost every neighborhood. London and São Paulo are grey with small blotches of green. In Johannesburg, Africa’s city of gold, crime lurks in alleyways...

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FaithBiblical Reflections

Apocalypse Then, Apocalypse Now: What About the Second Half of Daniel?

| 14 min read

Midway through the book of Daniel, everything changes.  Nice, well-ordered stories that have fed generations of Sunday School kids suddenly give way to seemingly bizarre visions with strange imagery and uncertain interpretation. Daniel 1–6 are incredibly helpful for us in that they model a kind of belief in God, a type of posture toward the...

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CultureChristianity & Culture

Ethics for Exile

| 17 min read

Christianity has always – like any global movement – had different flavors.  Those flavors are often thought of as denominations, but denominations themselves mask a range of variation in how we express our Christianity – cultural variation, theological variation, and almost any other “-al variation” out there.  At a time when one flavor of Christianity...

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