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November 2025

November 04, 2025

Life and Living Versus Death and Dying

The contrast between focusing on the living rather than on death and dying could have...

March 2024

March 28, 2024

Good News Is About Life and Love, Not Death and Dying, Pt. 3

The good news is that hate doesn’t have the last word. We can choose love...

March 27, 2024

Good News Is About Life and Love, Not Death and Dying, Pt. 2

Whatever we make of these reports today, the lessons in these stories’ emphasis are not...

March 27, 2024

Good News Is About Life and Love, Not Death and Dying, Pt. 1

The original good news of the gospel was not that someone had died. It was...

May 2022

May 19, 2022

Social Advocacy (Part 3 of 3)

The bodily autonomy of people in these communities is just the latest example of how...

May 18, 2022

Social Advocacy (Part 2 of 3)

Early Christians were not concerned with saving people from post-mortem realities as much as they...

May 17, 2022

Social Advocacy (Part 1 of 3)

Advocacy is any action that speaks in favor of, recommends, argues for a cause, supports...

April 2021

April 01, 2021

The Good News of Forceful Nonviolent Resurrection (Part 3)

God’s power never expresses itself through the humiliation or denigration of another. It does not...

April 01, 2021

The Good News of Forceful Nonviolent Resurrection (Part 2)

The book of Acts offers just one example of this alternative focus and emphasis; the...

March 2021

March 30, 2021

The Good News of Forceful Nonviolent Resurrection (Part 1)

The good news was not that Jesus died, or even that he died for you....

December 2019

December 02, 2019

Stand Up Anyway

I don’t believe that we must pass through fire and sword to get to a...

November 2019

November 06, 2019

Learning to Speak Out

The subject of politics is the discussion of how power is distributed and who gets...

August 2019

August 26, 2019

A Prayer for Societal Justice and an End to Violence

We can make a choice to subvert our culture’s tendency to value property over people...