I have elsewhere written about the political ideals of the Christian message, Jesus having proclaimed something far more radical than anything Karl Marx or Fri...
The Third Aspect: Bravery
Dearest friends,
What does Bravery mean? As a question, it takes me back to my days of football. Our coach would always psych us up w...
We are on a journey to show how/why a Christian God allows suffering in the world
Universal Suffering
We last left off with a conclusion, and an important...
Earlier this week I was giving God the silent treatment. It’s not that I forgot to pray, but rather every time it occurred to me to pray, I remembered, “Oh yea...
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This blog post is premised on events that take place at the end of the book and film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
Unless you have li...
In modern Christian evangelism, a curious new brand of the gospel has emerged, which has come to be known (by its critics) as the ‘prosperity gospel’. This bra...
The world was made by God, and the signs are everywhere: under bridges, under rocks, within equations, in the tendons of the hands of those we hold dear, in th...
The Second Aspect: Loyalty
Dearest friends,
I recently heard a phrase in a new way. It’s a common phrase, one you might also hear on any given day: you do you....
I recently had the great privilege of attending a three-day retreat based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, a sixteenth-century saint and ...
Michael Gungor
So much of American Christianity is, in my mind, B.S. We pretend we believe this. We pretend we don’t have doubts about it. We pretend we’re ...