Yep. You know I’m busy when this happens. I wrote this one for my class a few weeks ago. (Don’t forget to check out the other two here and here.)
“There was once a very poor man, an addict in fact, who made his home on the streets of a very large affluent city. Indeed, [...] Read more »
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Part I | Part II
Enter Jesus. The second section of the book is called “A New Kind of Commander and Chief” and it deals with the story of Jesus. Finally, after growing tried of watching humanity be seduced by power and privilege, God decided to get involved. God got local. God got [...] Read more »
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April 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Part I
So what is this book about? Basically this: we can’t differentiate between what is Christian and what is American anymore. And frankly, when a lot of people say “Christian” they actually mean “American.” The church has been married to the state for quite sometime and as a result, the lust for [...] Read more »
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Instead of writing a normal book review, I’ve decided to take each section of Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw’s book Jesus for President, and individually make some comments and reflections. This book deals with my own personal “sweet spot” of theology and politics, an area I am continually wrestling with and struggling to make [...] Read more »
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I know it’s a little late for Holy Week fodder, but I’ve been busy over the last week and a half. The following is the text of a devotional I gave Wednesday of Holy Week at Village United Methodist Church, as part of a Holy Week breakfast series. The text that morning was John [...] Read more »
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