What if fulfilling Torah is not about being right, but about being light?
theology
“Delmar’s been saved!”
When we talk about salvation as something strictly individual that results in the transport of our immortal souls to some other-worldly “heaven,” we miss the point Jesus makes that the kingdom of heaven is sprouting up all around us, here and now, as we share his radical program of unconditional love.
“Jesus was a socialist…”
The radical claim of Jesus is not that we are so much free from something—oppression, marginalization, even sin or death—but that we are free for something. And that something is the terrifying prospect of being able to love in the ultimate way…unconditionally and sacrificially.
Excerpt from An Ecological Eschatology
What if our mandate for creation care is more than simple stewardship?
A Declaration of Peace
My good friend Jeff Johnson has posted a brilliant and evocative piece over on his Our Human Life blog. Jeff raises some important issues that all of us trying to follow Jesus and seek shalom need to explore. Will we continue to pay lip service to a nebulous concept of peace, or will we … Continue reading A Declaration of Peace
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