Part 3: Why Are [Some] Christians So Mean?

2019-08-09T20:45:34+00:00

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Why Are (Some) Christians So Mean?

Last updated on: August 9, 2019 at 8:45 pm By Keith Giles

It happens far too often. A few weeks ago my non-Christian friend shared with me a story about someone she knows who was turned away from a local church and asked to leave the property because it “looked bad” that she was crying in front of their building. Of course, the woman’s daughter was missing, she was close to losing her apartment due to HUD restrictions limiting her ability to care for her grand daughter, and she needed help with food... Read more

God's Love

2019-08-08T16:56:39+00:00

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Part 4: Healing My Affluenza

Last updated on: August 8, 2019 at 4:56 pm By Keith Giles

In this final section of the interview, my friend, Thomas Crisp and I talk about the Protestant confusion of the Gospel of the Atonement versus actually following Jesus daily. ** KEITH: The whole thing with the Isaiah House is really a blessing. I love what you and Chase and AJ and others are doing to just spend time with the people there on Sunday mornings to share breakfast and listen to them and befriend them. It’s so beautiful. If I... Read more

2019-08-07T15:49:38+00:00

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Part 3: My Affluenza

Last updated on: August 7, 2019 at 3:49 pm By Keith Giles

In this section of our interview, my friend, Biola Professor Thomas Crisp and I get very personal and practical and discuss the differences between sharing and giving. ** KEITH: In Western culture we think it’s about giving more. We think of writing checks but I think it’s really more about what we’d call sharing that Jesus is wants. It’s not just giving money apart from relationship with those who are poor. Really, I think it’s knowing their names and understanding... Read more

2019-08-05T19:17:34+00:00

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My Affluenza [Part 2]

Last updated on: August 5, 2019 at 7:17 pm By Keith Giles

Part 1 of our dialog ended with me asking Biola Philosophy Professor Thomas Crisp an important question about what Jesus was asking us as His followers to give up and how far we should take this idea. Before we get around to discussing that, Thomas and I took a tangent first.** KEITH: Before we get into that, I wanted to first touch on something that you and I talked about a few months ago about what happened in the early... Read more

2019-08-01T18:35:37+00:00

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Finding A Cure For My Affluenza

Last updated on: August 1, 2019 at 6:35 pm By Keith Giles

My good friend Thomas Crisp is a professor of Philosophy at Biola University. We became friends because we share a similar passion for issues of justice and following Christ into community with the poor. Recently, Thomas wrote an influential philosophy paper entitled “Jesus and Affluence” which I was fortunate enough to read. After considering the arguments in this paper, I asked Thomas if he would agree to an interview where we could discuss the paper in a more conversational manner... Read more

God's Love

2019-07-30T22:52:53+00:00

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The Pharisee in Me and The Christ in Trump

Last updated on: July 30, 2019 at 10:52 pm By Keith Giles

Over the weekend, I spent some quality time with a few amazing people in Woodstock, GA at the “Unleashing the Word of God” event, hosted by The Jesus Purpose Community. Over dinner we shared more than a few conversations about faith, doubt and deconstruction. Eventually we meandered over to the topic of politics and that led to some observations about the person currently occupying the White House at the moment. Given the progressive nature of our event, the comments about... Read more

2019-07-25T21:39:05+00:00

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Now Open: Heresy After Hours

Last updated on: July 25, 2019 at 9:39 pm By Keith Giles

Almost 2 years ago, I started a little podcast with two other guys – Jamal Jivanjee and Matthew Distefano – called “The Heretic Happy Hour” podcast. Honestly, at the time, we were just having fun sharing our different views on theology, ekklesiology and Christianity in general. We laughed. We cussed. We mocked conventions. We tipped over sacred cows and we did our best to question everything we knew about God, Jesus, the Bible and everything in between. Along the... Read more

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