A new feature that I’ll try to put on Thursdays. It’s a thought from something I’ve read or what someone has said to possibly get the thoughts going on a particular topic. Here’s the first one: The Gospel is designed to be in...
Liberation theology chose the poor, but the poor chose the Pentecostals.
Go to any place where the people are suppressed or oppressed and what you hear is not liberation theology but joy, ecstacy and Holy Spirit Pentecostalism.
There is reason to believe that we need fewer entrepreneurial pastors and more pastors who actually know God deeply. If the next generation is any indication, our spiritually, intellectually, and aesthetically impoverished popular culture and the...
To insist on one’s place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place. To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things. To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.
— Robert Fulghum
Hesychastic prayer, which leads to that rest where the soul can swell with God, is prayer of the heart…We find the best formulation of the prayer of the heart in the words of teh Russian mystic Theophan the Recluse, “To pray is to...
The history of God’s people is a history of life cycles, a history of clarity about call and identity, followed by complacence, followed by collusion with the powers, followed by catastrophic loss. Contrary to being a disaster, the exilic...
We must find the freedom to step over our wounds and the courage to forgive those who have wounded us. The real danger is to get stuck in anger and resentment. Then we start living as “the wounded one,” always complaining that life...
Leaders we admire do not place themselves at the center; they place others there. They do not seek the attention of people; they give it to others. They do not focus on satisfying their own aims and desires; they look for ways to respond to the...