When I read about shootings at the Game Stop and at a house party last week, I became angry to hear that so many locals were killed or wounded by gun violence in our neighborhood. I was angry because it hit so close to home. These shootings weren’t in some far off slum, but happenedContinue reading “As clergy and as God’s “Church,” we have failed our society in so many ways”
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Redefining Christian Witness
“We are against Halloween,” one minister recently told me. This is a common response I get from folks in the church. That, and: “We are against homosexuals, abortion, environmentalists, liberals, social-gospel types, postmodernists, illegal immigrants, people-who-worship-like-that, health-care reform, and redistribution.” As some Christians follow in the footsteps of partisan politicians, it remains an easy habitContinue reading “Redefining Christian Witness”
Baptist Spirituality 