Anne Rice (best known for “Interview with the Vampire” and other gothic novels) recently announced “I quit Christianity.” “For those who care, and I understand if you don’t, today I quit being a Christian. I’m out. I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being a “Christian” or to being a part of [...]
Reggie McNeal is writing for clergy and lay leaders of the church in North America. His premise is that we have substituted the real thing for “church as a clubhouse where religious people hang out with other people who think, dress, behave, vote, and believe like them . . . and the Bible is not [...]
Perhaps the emerging culture values authenticity above truth because they do not find the traditional churches’ truth claims to be authentic. Nietzsche discovered that, “After the church had let itself be deprived of the entire Christian way of life and had quite specifically sanctioned life under the state, that form of life that Jesus had [...]
Jesus gave to the church those who would provide care, concern and wisdom (shepherds, overseers and servants, brothers and sisters). When the church became an institution, these became positions of power. Office in an institution means position, power, rank, control and authority.
Julian Assange Has Been Arrested will be in the headlines today and the buzz will continue to be “is he a hero or a villain?” — maybe a bit of both. If innocent lives are in danger, we pray that our governments will protect them. And if he has demonstrated that some of those in [...]