It’s easy to find Christians despising the “Jesus is my boyfriend” motif in worship music. I’ve usually mocked it myself, but something I read in James K.A. Smith’s recent book Desiring the Kingdom made me think about this from another angle. In order to understand Smith’s defense of erotically-charged worship, we must first understand the basic […]
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I’m not much of one for giving gifts. I receive no great delight in the act of procuring or receiving them—especially not the shopping bit. If you find the “love language” system helpful, gifts are not mine. I am also in agreement with the premise of Buy Nothing Christmas, which thinks that the spectacle of orgiastic […]
Here’s the opening lines from a new article by Charles Colson: I have been surprised by the number of Christians who have given up on politics this year. “I don’t like either candidate, so I’m staying home,” some say. I get fed up with the vain posturing and empty promises, too. But not voting is not an […]
In keeping with some of the Yoder I quoted in the previous post, I’d like to propose that discipleship can be distilled down to a twofold task. (Beware of reductionists!) The first portion is being the kind of called-out community who embody the kingdom of God, upsetting the status quo, serving the poor and oppressed, running […]
I’m currently reading John Howard Yoder’s seminal The Politics of Jesus, and there are many times when I could have posted excerpts. Yoder discusses how modern ethical theory is obsessed with first defining the meaning of history and then grabbing the right handle to move it in (what we have identified as) the right direction. […]
One of the fundamental instincts we walk around with is that “things are not as they should be.” Indeed, I would say that, while what we do with this instinct varies enormously, the instinct itself might even be called a universal truth. One of the reactions to this instinct could be called idealism, which for my […]
