In the Gospel reading from yesterday (Luke 24) we encounter the risen Christ on the road to Emmaus. Dwelling in the passage last week as I prepared to preach, I continually came back to the perspective of the two followers Jesus meets on the road. I was struck by the fact that they had given themselves [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘ethics’
April 4, 2008
On MLK, politics, and the prophetic…
Martin Luther King, Jr. on War
Today is the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. I am amazed at how much he accomplished in his short life. He was the leader of a movement. A prophetic voice for civil rights…against the wars of empire. He was a courageous [...]
March 28, 2008
How the World sees America…
I sat down to eat my lunch today and turned the TV on to C-SPAN2. Amar Bakshi was in the middle of a press conference speaking about his project- How the World sees America. This fascinating project took him on a 5-month trip to 11 countries around the world. Bakshi is a reporter for the [...]
February 11, 2008
The problem in postmodern society from a Christian perspective…
G.K Chesterton once entered a public debate on the state of the nation by writing a letter to The Times. In response to the question of what was wrong with the world he wrote this:
Dear Sir, I am.
A prayer for the Church…
Lord,
Help us in our weakness and inadequacy to understand the ways in which [...]
January 24, 2008
The Politics of Jesus…
Which side wins—Democrat or Republican, East or West, elite or bourgeois or proletariat, Herodian or Zealot—may be considered news within the system, but until someone brings into the system resources from outside it, unless someone kicks a hole in the wall of the system so we aren’t trapped within it, there is no real good [...]
October 29, 2007
God’s sacred ecosystem…
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is hear today and [...]
September 6, 2007
March Against Violence…
MARCH AGAINST VIOLENCE: Saturday, Sept. 8, starting at noon at St. Paul’s Church of God in Christ, 215 S. Queen St. and ending with a rally at Binn’s Park. The rally will include speakers and entertainment. This march is being organized by the mother of Tyquan Hall, who was shot while trying to settle a [...]
February 14, 2007
Worshipping the Slaughtered Lamb…
Then I saw in the right hand of the one seated on the throne a scroll written on the inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals; and I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break the seals?” And no one in heaven [...]
October 16, 2006
Is God Green?
“Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: ‘I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you…every living creature on earth.’”
Genesis 9:8-10
“For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really [...]
October 13, 2006
The Gospel of peace…
Will Sampson has some interesting insights from a lecture by Chuck Gutenson on Pacifism.
1. No matter how much we spend on American national defense, the best we can hope for is “illusion of security.”
2. We cannot kill enough of “them” to ever reasonably defend “us”, and it is antithetical to the gospel to even think [...]
