Tragedy and a Theological Loss For Words

Two tragedies have intertwined themselves in my mind as I worked today. One is a current news story not unlike the heart breaking incident with Addie Kubisiak that broke our hearts last winter. It appears that a women has kept the bodies of infants who she possibly miscarried wrapped in plastic in various parts of [...]

Guerrilla Gardening

Changing the world doesn’t always have to come in monumental undertakings. Sometimes, it’s the little things that you and I can do to change things for the better. Good Magazine has a story about the renewal of small strips of urban blight. Read on…and then go do something about something.

Hope Springs Eternal: Rockies in July

 The opening day of Broncos camp is front page news and the top of the hour story each year at this time but something has interfered, taking the edge off of the near religious event; it is the end of July and the Colorado Rockies are relevant in the National League West pennant race. After [...]

The Taliban Make a Martyr

 Dr. Groothuis’ measured comments on the South Korean hostages in Afghanistan are most productive in a terrible situation. Read it here: The Taliban Make a Martyr . We continue to be in prayer knowing all the while the awful truth: God in His omniscient wisdom will sometimes take the lives of his servants for the greater [...]

Gracism: I Will Life You Up

In Gracism, David Anderson highlights Paul’s analogy of the body in 1 Corinthians 12 as a call for unity in the body, with all members weak and strong contributing to good of all other members. No division of any kind is approbated for God designed his body so that each is reliant on the other [...]

Friday is for Rawk! Hillbilly Fury

 
Colin Buis of Revolution Mother does his best Jaco Pastorius impersonation. He and drummer Brendan Murphy were rock solid anchors to the intensity that is Mike Vallely and Jason Hampton’s fuzz-soaked guitar. Revolution Mother is no vanity project like Juliette and the Licks, Vallely has a mde a career of standing out on the fringes [...]

“Please Don’t Let Him Be Black!” « That NEW Adage

This piece (“Please Don’t Let Him Be Black!” ) must have extraordinarly hard for the writer to author but he put himself out there in an unpopular position. Give it a read - repent if your church fits his accusation - and bless him with a comment.

Jubilee in the Age of Racism

[The following was written by one of my spiritual mentors, H. Malcolm Newton. I was unable to find an online link to the old document so it is transcribed word for word here. It was originally published in the Faculty Column of a journal called Focal Point.]

The Mark Fuhrman developments in the O.J. Simpson case [...]

Gracism and Racism

Anderson defines racism as ’speaking, acting or thinking negatively about someone else solely based on that person’s color, class or culture’ in Gracism. It is productive to add an aspect of power on the part of the racist that extends over the oppressed but we can continue in our discussion of David’s book without it. [...]

Doctrines of Love versus Doctrines of Grace?

A bit of semantic infiltration has become the norm in the Calvinism-Arminian discussions in which Calvinists have taken to referring to their theology as the ‘doctrines of grace.’ It’s certainly nothing new but it is used now in order to infer that the Arminian theology is anything but rooted in grace, which of course is [...]