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December 20, 2016
You are seeing it in the news everywhere at this time of the year. This year, it’s terrorist brutality at a Berlin Christmas market, a diplomat assassinated in Turkey, and shootings in Zurich, Switzerland outside a mosque. Don’t forget the 2009 Christmas “underwear bomber” as well as numerous showings of domestic pressure to cancel Nativity displays and any language that has “Christ” or something religious in it. Christmas continues to be under attack. How does the gospel address this post-Christian darkness? We need to see that it’s not the “season” surrounding this holiday that offends people. It’s the person embodying the […]
December 16, 2016
It was supposed to be a normal Wednesday night on June 17, 2015 at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. Faithful parishioners were going to the church’s mid-week Bible study and prayer meeting. Many of them made this activity a part of their normal schedule and spiritual growth. But what was anticipated as a regular Bible study and prayer meeting soon turned into one of the most horrific events ever imagined. Nine people were killed, including the pastor, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, also a SC State Senator. This week, the court trial of the suspected killer was held, […]
December 2, 2016
Something is happening in American culture today that makes the phrase “I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore” a more vivid metaphor than we’d like to admit…The more traditional models are breaking down. We find ourselves struggling to find adequate ways to understand and respond to a world that is not what we have known. The institutional church is going through a radical change in this country, and the entire system is under incredible stress. Regele and Schulz’s analysis above has borne fruit in our times. In many cities and towns throughout America, the church—Protestant and Catholic—continues to experience […]