Help My Unbelief: Before He Died, He Lived

I am a follower of Jesus not only because of the work of the Cross, but also because of the life he lived before the Cross. May we spend our lives doing what Jesus modeled for us in life: fighting the forces that diminish, dehumanize, and destroy the least and the lost.

Help My Unbelief

Advent, Jesus, Lent, Yolanda Pierce

March 25, 2013

Whitewashing Jesus’ Judaism

Emptying Jesus of Nazareth of his ethnic and religious identity and their markers leaves a hollow shell that can be filled with anything at all – insert dominant culture here – and devalues and denies the specificity of the Incarnation.

NEWS & VIEWS

History Channel, Jesus, spotlight, The Bible, Wil Gafney

March 20, 2013

Iran, Nukes and Jesus

by Shayne Lee, Ph.D., Last week, Secretary of State John Kerry cautioned that time is expiring for a diplomatic resolution to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Mr. Kerry issued this warning on the same day that Vice President Biden more assertively reminded the world of President Obama’s recent claim that military options are not off the table. The vice president made...

NEWS & VIEWS

Ahmadinejad, AIPAC, Barack Obama, Iran, Israel, Jesus, Netanyahu, Shayne Lee, united states

September 12, 2012

Resurrection Power: Remembering Tupac Shakur

Tupac's appropriation of Jesus reminds us that our deaths—no matter what the cause—do not have to be in vain. As long as we find a way to impact the world before leaving it, our memories will keep coming back in forms we may least expect.

CULTURE, MUSIC

Ebony Utley, hip hop, Jesus, Rap and Religion, Resurrection power, spotlight

December 30, 2011

Christianity And Kwanzaa

by Adam Clark It’s strange that the day after Christians celebrate the birth of child who was to become a liberator that they fail to see the liberating possibilities in the week long celebration of Kwanzaa (Dec. 26-Jan. 1.) The infancy narratives in Matthew and Luke portray Jesus as the bearer of concrete longings of a...

CULTURE

breaking, Christianity, Christmas, Jesus, Kwanzaa

Help My Unbelief: Before He Died, He Lived

Whitewashing Jesus’ Judaism

Iran, Nukes and Jesus

Resurrection Power: Remembering Tupac Shakur

Christianity And Kwanzaa

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