“Christianity has always been alert to the needs of people, but the church at its best knows that entertainment isn’t enough. Entertainment is a horizontal activity, with performers and an audience. A responsive audience may encourage a performer and the response of an audience may enhance a performance. But that’s as good [as] it gets [...]

“God is Love….this means that there is nothing about God, in God, or comes from God that is not love. Love is not something God occasionally does or engages in but is the very essence of God. To say ‘God is Love’ is to say that the great mystery of God is a mystery in [...]

“I knew that people would jump on me for writing the endorsement.  I wrote the endorsement because I would like people to listen to him.  He may not be right.  But he’s doing something worth doing.  There’s so much polarization in the evangelical church that it’s a true scandal.  We’ve got to learn how to [...]

 “Do we realize how almost exactly the Baal culture of Canaan is reproduced in American church culture? Baal religion is about what makes you feel good. Baal worship is a total immersion in what I can get out of it. And of course, it was incredibly successful. The Baal priests could gather crowds that outnumbered [...]

We have heard the question, “Can you imagine a world without God?  What would it be like?”  But, can you imagine God without a world?  What would that God be like?  Would he be different than the God we imagine from our experience as participants in his creation?  That is one of my questions behind the [...]