Part 11 of the 12-part series “Lepers, Loons and Losers: The Outcasts of the Gospels.” Read the rest of the series here. One of the soldiers pierced his side with a lance, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. (John 19:34) It was clear
Lambda Christian Community Church, Edmonton, Alberta Your employer asks you to run over Staples and purchase a box of paper clips. You do things right, so you order one of everything Staples sells to be delivered to your office. What would your employer say? When
Readings: 2 Timothy 1:7, Matthew 25:31-46 There is a story told of a young man in a cabin who prays to God and asks God what He wants him to do with his life. God tells him to look at the massive rock that is in
Readings for the Seventh Sunday of Easter: Acts 1:6-14; Psalm 68:1-10, 33-36; 1 Peter 4:12-14, 5:6-11; John 17:1-11 I have been drenched in scripture since even before I could read and write. My parents were devout Baptists, and I taught a Sunday School class for
There has been significant turmoil at my church for several years, and it finally reached the point where I felt compelled to resign my membership. That decision was clear to me, but the subsequent steps weren’t so clear. Initially I assumed that I would simply
The anti-marriage-equality juggernaut moves on successfully every time it’s put to the people. These religious and political extremists know how to use an apparently democratic process because they’ve borrowed the business lobby’s issue-distorting techniques to win referenda. Meanwhile, pro-equality activists work hard to fight a
I’m hearing both gay and straight people say that the long string of losses we’ve faced at the polls around marriage equality are really our own fault; our community pushed too hard and too fast, they argue. The prominent theme being generated is that we
Editor: God be with you and thank you for this magazine. I have been encouraged by most of what I have read, brought to tears by some of the pain felt by others from people who call themselves Christians, and have come to the wall
Asked to comment on the role of faith in contemporary politics at his April 28, 2005, news conference, President Bush responded with three salient statements, enumerated here in order of their delivery: 1) “I view religion as a personal matter”; 2) “I think a person
Did you think that it takes a crisis to ruin your day? Do you carry around the notion that bad days are caused solely by unhappy events and mean people? Are you operating with the assumption that the quality of your day is totally determined