Church Abuse, and other forms of discipleship

By Joe LaGuardia I have a confession: I abuse my church. By abuse, I don’t mean it in the contemporary sense of the word.  I mean it in the traditional sense, like when your grandfather abused those old work boots by wearing them in and putting them to work over the last four decades, boots scarred from aContinue reading “Church Abuse, and other forms of discipleship”

Look not unto Jesus

By Joe LaGuardia Several months after Kristina and I moved to Georgia, I was throwing trash away in our apartment complex dumpster when I spotted a painting of the Last Supper of Christ.  Unlike the Da Vinci paintings I had seen before, this one was different: all of the disciples and Jesus were people of color.Continue reading “Look not unto Jesus”