Writings from a shepherd of Christ's flock
Religion News Service published this article of mine on January 26, 2021. I have shared a preview below. The full article can be found here.
I stepped into the pulpit on Jan. 10 feeling an extraordinary weight. Four days earlier, 11 miles from our church, some of those protesting the certification of the presidential election broke through glass, beat police with American flags and precipitated the first incursion into the U.S. Capitol building since the War of 1812. [ . . . ]
I wrote these articles for United? We Pray in December 2020. Below is the introduction. You can read the full articles here – Part 1, Part 2.
When I started researching teaching about the “curse of Ham,” I thought I was wading into a legitimate theological debate, a back-and-forth of exegetically and hermeneutically credible ideas. The more I studied, the more I realized that this was something entirely different: a story of self-delusion, how we embrace baseless Biblical interpretations—posturing them as objective exegesis—because they help us make sense of our world and ease our consciences. [ . . . ]
Originally published at Real Clear Politics on May 29, 2020.
“Please. Please. I can’t breathe.” [ . . . ]
Originally posted on August 24th, 2017 by my friend Jennifer Phillips and later by our local paper, this was my response to the white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, VA and President Trump’s comments about them.
I wasn’t alive in 1962 for the Cuban missile crisis. The only part of the Cold War I lived through was too consumed with Knight Rider and G.I. Joe’s for me to absorb any of the concerns over Soviet Union nukes. But I think it’s fair to say that the Cold War created an ambient terror in America. A low-grade, incessant concern hung in the air that something radically life-altering could happen at any time. [ . . . ]
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