Jesus and Wealth – Part Four
I believe neither that Hades exists nor that anyone would be sent there even if it did. But as a critique of the manner in which wealth neglects the poor, this is pretty powerful.
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Jesus and Wealth – Part Three
Following his life in Nazareth that possibly included day trips to Sepphoris looking for work, the next training ground for Jesus was a brief time with this same John the Baptist in the wilderness, hearing again that injustice is not the way of the Lord.
Jesus and Wealth – Part Two
So who is right? Did Jesus live and move in a society that was doing alright economically, or one mired in poverty? Or does the question not really matter?
Jesus and Wealth – Part One
Money, wealth, financial power, economic power, call it what you will, extreme wealth disparity destroys societies from within, eating away at the bond between people and the fabric of society.
Woke and Wealth
I read once that if everyone started out with the same amount of good land and the same amount of money or what money could buy, despite the initial equality, some would become rich, and others would become poor. Why would this happen?
The Story of Jesus
Jesus did die on a cross, but not to save us from our sins. He did rise from the dead, but not by walking out of an empty tomb. He did not perform miracles, but he did heal peoples’ psychological wounds inflicted by massive oppression. His story got twisted.
Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday is a festival celebrated by Christians around the world. Jesus went to Jerusalem; that much is certain. The details are less clear.
Thoughts on a New Year
Where is all this going? What can we ultimately hope for, for both the universe as a whole and our own individual life as part of that same whole?
Fifty Years Later – Part 15
What Lies Ahead?
As the years moved along, this answer seemed less and less adequate in the face of undeserved suffering in the world, the epitome of which is the baby born into the world, experiences extreme pain, and dies after one day.
What Say You?
A Puzzle for the Christmas Season
Christmas presents us with an intersection of religious and secular stories that come from and come with a mixed bag of fact and fiction
What Say You?
A Puzzle for the Christmas Season
Here are some recent news items to which I have added a few facts that seem related. Have fun putting it all together, creating your own narrative about what it all might mean, if anything.
Fifty Years Later – Part 14
What and Why is The Church?
Fifty years ago, one prominent topic of conversation in the churches was the ecumenical movement, trying to determine what the various bodies had in common.
Fifty Year Later – Part 13
Is there Order to life?
It is not so much my thinking that has changed over the last fifty years, as the attitude I bring to that thinking.
Fifty Year Later – Part 12
What Am I To Do?
What a person does, the content of one's act depends on how one analyzes the situation, that is, the method by which one decides.
Fifty Years Later – Part 11
What is a Christian?
If you ask this question, the most likely answer you will get, is that a Christian is a person who accepts Jesus as Lord and Savior, this being the most likely answer both fifty years ago and also today.
America: 2022 Time for a Spiritual Revolution
The Jan 6th committee has done everything possible to show that Trump attempted to overthrow the government. They almost beg the undecided to look anew at the evidence and realize how close we came to losing our democracy and that it is still possible for that to happen.
Messiah? No
The terms messiah and messianism have, of late, been resurrected in the political sphere. For some, Trump is the second messiah, come to liberate us from the devilish democratic cabal who eat children and worship satan, thereby creating the kingdom of god as envisioned by heartless, authoritarian Republicans.
Fifty Years Later – Part 10
Who was Jesus?
The question Who is Jesus? is perhaps the most complex issue in Christian theology, embracing, as it does, three interrelated sub-questions: who was he in his person, what did he do, and how does that impact us today?