It is one thing to be declared “family,” and quite another to live out the relationships implied – particularly when new siblings come from communities deeply divided with one another. And yet this is the first work of the church. Those who have been called to bear witness to love’s triumph, to carry on Jesus’s...
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Jesus at 7PM – Live Audience Q&A in Irvine, CA
Honest answers to sincere questions are essential to the work of love. Indeed the lessons that have been most formative in my spiritual life have not come from books and lectures (important though they are!), but from the candid conversations that came at the cafe or in the parking lot after the formal lesson was...
Understanding the Bible 02: Sin in the Garden of Eden
Central to the biblical story is the conviction that something has gone terribly wrong. The world as we experience it is not the world as God intended. In this episode we turn to the biblical explanation why – how humanity moved from the Garden of Eden to a cosmos in which “thorns and thistles” are...