Control sits beneath our bedroom windows, with ample room inside for our spare blankets and sheets. We did not ask for it, but we came by it honestly, passed down from one generation to the next. Generosity is where we lay our heads each night, surrounded by abundance and cooled… [more]
Theology & The Church
My day at the NATO protests
I don’t make a habit of going to these things. As Chicago braced itself for road closures, heightened security and masses of protesters surrounding the NATO summit, I reflected on why I wanted to march in this protest, at this particular moment in time. I’m a Christian feminist who’s been… [more]
Careful cultural engagement
Last year my husband and I joined our friends in a 200-seat theater to hear a relatively unknown band called The Civil Wars. This was before the Grammys and before their collaboration with Taylor Swift for the Hunger Games soundtrack. I hadn’t heard much about the duo before this show… [more]
The broadening agenda of young Christians
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from Jonathan Merritt’s new book, A Faith of Our Own. Some of today’s leading Christian entities and voices show new life as they support a broadening agenda. Still socially conservative on many issues, they feel called to attend to issues that most Christians haven’t… [more]
What Nicodemus teaches us about homosexuality
Editor's note: Agendas Aside, a Think Christian series on homosexuality and the church, also includes articles by Neil de Koning, Glenn Goodfellow, Jason E. Summers and Josh Larsen. Allow me to show my cards from the outset: I am Christian, heterosexual and I won't be taking an explicit side on… [more]
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Robert Joustra How we enact justice is most certainly not between just "us and God." ...At times it is far better if we don't act at all - even if excruciatingly hard (as in Syria).
My day at the NATO protests
bob s. I get a little nervous when I've seen up close a good 20+ years now of Christian churches in the U.S. starting up social programs. The end results are too often not what we'd like to think they are...
The broadening agenda of young Christians
Michael Rosch I don't think one should limit one's moral positions to what can be observed...
What Nicodemus teaches us about homosexuality
Bradm Professional blackjack seems to me to lack any sort of service of one's neighbor...
What I learned as a card-counting Christian
Lief What I'm arguing for is a true experience of various forms of popular culture by letting them "be" without always having to control the conversation. Let's meet "head bangers" on their terms... not ours.
Why I’m fine with Metallica coming to church
Marta L. One point that came up for me was whether a drive to live cheaply is robbing others of their livelihood...
Can living simply become its own sort of idolatry?