This is the third reflection in the Missio Lent series. Read the rest here. Raised an agnostic, my first exposure to the Bible was when it was sung in the rock-opera Godspell. Fascinated, I was, by the notion that there was a God and that He had an opinion about things. I bought the album and memorized...
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Five years ago, I joined with Rick Love and Michael Ly to launch Peace Catalyst International, hoping to contribute to the flourishing of the global neighborhood by building friendships between Christians and Muslims. We wanted to focus more on common grace and common good rather than acting as if we had a common theology. We...
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Tomorrow marks Epiphany. Traditionally, the church meditates on the Wise Men who searched for and journeyed great distances for the newborn King of Israel, along with other moments of Jesus’ being made manifest to the world. Long before the early believers experienced Pentecost, the journey of these three “foreigners,” equipped with and guided by pagan tools,...
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The pain is real; the suffering is real. Deeply so. Grieve with those who grieve, and weep with those who weep. But do not drink the poison of fear.
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A journey through life in which we allow ourselves to ask such questions, and to apprehend beauty, is a journey in which we will learn to be wrong. And learn that being wrong is truly glorious, because it heightens our joy in finding and being found by God, whose beauty is past change.
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“There are basically three kinds of cultures in the world: guilt-based, fear-based, or shame-based. Guilt-based and fear-based cultures have been much more open to the good news of Jesus than shame-based cultures. It is critical that we understand the dynamics of honor and shame to communicate effectively the good news of Jesus within this cultural...
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