When Love Shows Up

I’m not interested in making more Christians.   Maybe that seems surprising to you. It was certainly surprising to me when I realized it.   I grew

I said last week that I hated the title “Good Samaritan”. It’s a week later and I still hate it. Last week, I mentioned hating

I hate the phrase “Good Samaritan.” My apologies to all the organizations and hospitals doing great work under this moniker. No offense is intended. But

Every Christian in America should be suspect. Every single one of us. Every single Christian in America. Non-Christian Americans should be looking at us sideways

Throughout St. Paul’s letter to a church he planted in Galatia, he is trying to impress upon his audience the magnitude of Jesus’ life, death,

In the beginning of the Bible is a story about the creation of the world. It is a very well-known story, and you have probably

When Cain kills Abel God is not deceived. You remember the story of Cain and Abel from the book of Genesis, yes? They are brothers.

I was not religious in college. Except for the night of a show. I was both a non-practicing Christian and a practicing actor at the

St. Stephen was stoned to death. He was both the first Christian deacon and the first Christian martyr. He riled up the authorities by speaking

When Jesus recruited his disciples, he did not pick from the usual suspects. He was a rabbi, but did not pick any seminary students. He

The Bible does not say that there is a Trinity. The term Trinity refers to God as being 3 persons in one divine being –

Jesus was publicly executed and his death was completely legal. You might think the brutality of his torture and execution would be the most interesting