Let’s talk about “wokeness” and the bible. When the teacher of the law asks Jesus “who is (εστιν) my neighbor?” in the well known parable of the Good Samartian (Luke 10: 25-37), we could talk at length about the social/power dynamics, or religious and ethnic discrimination, but before we get to that, let’s look at…
Category: Christianity and Culture
Critical Race Theory (in brief)
I apparently made a splash by confronting Owen Strachan about his use of Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a convenient bogey man for anything that made him uncomfortable. He uses the term, suggesting it will destroy the church, in a vague way (with how it destroys the church even more vaguely). So I asked him…
Love and COVID-19
“You do whatever you need to do to protect your family” “If you need to protect yourself, that’s fine, just don’t try to force me to do anything” “If I’m willing to take that risk what’s the big deal? I’m not asking you to do so” “Everyone just has to do what they think is…
Praising with the Saints
For this reason, as we are fully encircled by such a cloud of witnesses, having set down every weight and the easily entangling sin, we should run with endurance the course laying before us. Hebrews 12:1 This week, I’m going to explore a bit more the theme I introduced last time. Last week, I focused…
Two or More are Gathered
“For where two or three gather in my name, I am there in their midst” Mathew 18:20 After the Ascension of Christ, one of the big questions that presses the Church is, “Where is Christ?” Those from a more reformed perspective might immediately state “seated at the hand of the Father.” If you grew up…
When Exile Doesn’t End
“Comfort ye, Comfort ye my people” says your God “Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry unto her that warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, for she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.” A voice of one crying out: “Prepare, in the dessert, the road of the LORD; make…
Everybody needs to calm down about the Blood Moon (especially Christians)
I didn’t really believe it at first, but there it was, right on my Facebook feed. Someone talking about how the lunar eclipse that happened on Tuesday. Or, in their terms, the “blood moon.” I don’t really blame them, there are people who like to stir up hysteria and they make very convincing arguments with…
Why “Noah” may actually do more good than we admit
First things first. This is not a practical joke. I am making a serious claim about the movie “Noah” as a cultural phenomenon (not necessarily about the movie itself). So, full disclosure: this is not a review. You can read a good review from an evangelical perspective (with links to many more) at Christianity Today.…
