Aug 10, 2020 | Choice, Practices
The Parable of the Loving Father (Luke 15) is better known as the Parable of the Prodigal Son. You know this one: the boy who gets his piece of the family fortune, blows it all, and slinks home, only to fall half-dead into the arms of his father, who wants nothing...
Aug 5, 2020 | Choice, Practices
Paul, a traveling evangelist, makes his way to Athens, Greece, a center and seat of culture, knowledge, philosophy and law. He looks around the city, and sees lots of statues and markers and religious expressions. One of these is a marker dedicated to an unknown god:...
Jul 22, 2020 | Mission, Practices
John Robert Lewis (1940-2020) just passed away. So many words have been written about him that one more post won’t add much. So just one small thought from his memoir, Walking With the Wind. Congressman John Lewis was a kid in college in Nashville when the sit-ins at...
Jul 15, 2020 | Hope, Practices
I’ve already written in Tract Evangelism I about little, lurid, hellfire-and-brimstone tracts, so hot they warmed the hip pockets of the worn Levi’s that carried them. But they weren’t the only tracts we used. There were the teaching tracts. The Roman Road. Lay...
Jul 10, 2020 | Hope, Practices
I was a kid in the Seventies. The Seventies followed the Sixties- said captain obvious- and suddenly there was a revival of Christian fervor among young people. Young white people who had been inspired by civil rights and antiwar action, then disillusioned at the pace...
Jul 1, 2020 | Mission, Practices
Black Lives Matter. I’m white, and I’m talking mostly to white people. We white people have the most work to do. In The Way of Mission, we follow Jesus’ admonition to take up our crosses and follow. It’s a way of sacrifice. Lose your life to save it. Let me tell you a...
