Below you'll find a list of all posts from July, 2016
The late novelist David Foster Wallace, in 2013 at Kenyon College, gave the most quoted commencement speech of the last five years. It is known now as the “What is water?” speech. At the beginning of the speech Wallace tells a story. It seems that two young fish are swimming along nicely and an older fish swims by and hollers, …
As the Church of the God who loves the world we cannot forget our lost brothers and sisters, victims and perpetrators alike: Lome Ahrens, Michael Krol, Michael J. Smith, Patrick Zamarippa, Brent Thompson, Micah Xaviar Johnson, Dallas, July 7, 2016; Philandro Castile, Falcoln Heights Minnesots, July 6, 2016; Alton Sterling, Baton Rouge, July 5, 2016; Clementa C. Pinckney, Sharonda Singleton, …
If the deeper intention of 1 Peter 3:1-7 and Ephesians 5:21-33 is to call Christians to follow Jesus within the institutional expectations of their time, the challenge to the contemporary church is to follow Jesus not by transferring ancient views of authority to our own time but by recognizing that those who follow Jesus reject the pursuit of power and …
