Kingdom of God

What is the kingdom of God?

How should Christians engage with the world?

Who's In, Who's Out?

Every society has insiders and outsiders. Groups of people or individuals are defined by a particular characteristic,...

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A Seat at the Table

My husband and I raced through a television show on Netflix in the dark hours of ripe nightfall and early morning. We...

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World Upside Down

Early in his ministry, according to Matthew's Gospel, Jesus preached a very public sermon. This sermon, unlike any other, has not only been a great treasure of literature, but also...

Foreign and Belonging

I have not spent much of my life as a foreigner, though my short bouts with being a cultural outsider remind me of the difficulty of always feeling on the outside of the circle.

A Kingdom for Faint Hearts

"The kingdom of God is for the gullible," I read recently. "You enter by putting an end to all your questions." It is true that Jesus moved all over Judea pronouncing the reign of...

On Earth as in Heaven

I don't know what it is as children that makes us readily picture God as seated high above us. From childhood, we seem to nurture pictures of heaven and all its wonderment as that...

Who God Is

Wherever one might be in declarations of belief or disbelief, God is so often not the God these declarations expect, and often it is shocking to discover it. God comes near and...

House and Ladders

I am not sure what it is as children that makes us readily picture God as seated high above us. But from childhood, we seem to nurture pictures of heaven and all its wonderment as...

In a World of Stories

"You can't stop stories being told," Dr. Parnassus tells his relentless foe with religious assurance in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. The world of belief-systems and...

A Divine Welcome

Christians are called to be “against the world for the world.” But this is no easy task, and indeed, the danger for many of us is to live the extremes in either...

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