Jan 30, 2015
For centuries, “Kingdom work” was synonymous with the stuff pastors do – preaching, sacraments, general church-running… This was the “eternal” work done for God, and the province of a small minority of God’s people who were “ordained” to the role. “Secular” work was what one did for money, not an...
Jan 28, 2015
Conflict is the last thing anyone wants from their “church experience.” After all, we go to church to feel better, to get a little uplift to face the week, right? It’s the one place where we don’t have to deal with the typical human foibles of self-interest, pettiness, passive-aggression…right? I...
Jan 20, 2015
Churches obsess about a lot of things. Some things important (e.g., budgets and buildings and staff). Most…not so much (from the minutiae of worship to revamping the website one more time). And none of these the stuff that stands at the center of the biblical story. So what should a church obsess about??? What...
Jan 11, 2015
The true test of a theology is not questions is answers but the community it creates. Having just spent more than a year developing an understanding of the biblical narrative – centered on the conviction that God is love – we now turn our attention to “us,” to the conscious shaping of our life […]
Jan 5, 2015
At last we come to the end of the biblical journey: all creation made new! And the completion of the project of salvation is symbolized by the return of the “tree of life,” indeed a near forest of them now lining the center of the city. (Remember it was access to the tree of life […]