Why do we care about injustice? Because God’s new creation has begun in us.

How do pastors decide what to say about current events and social issues? As the story goes, both Karl Barth and Billy Graham said...

What do we do with the pain of the world? We enter in it and groan. That is what the Son of God did. And that is what the Spirit of God...

Written and compiled by Jason Jackson March 14, 2020 Guidelines for Gatherings in Homes UPDATE: The President of the United States, the...

Over the past few months, friends have told me that they are reading “Blessed Broken Given” with their small group at church or with a...

What’s the deal with Ash Wednesday? Let me say up front that you don’t have to mark this day. It’s a Christian tradition that goes back...

There are two ways of doing theological reflection on popular art like movies. One way is to try to uncover the “operating theology” in a...

Power comes in many forms. We can be in a position of power over others because of our job title, our relational network, our expertise,...

It is all the rage to talk about how oppressive Christianity is and has always been. It’s even more troubling to see some Christians...

2019 was a good year for reading. I managed to read about 30 books this year, which may be a personal high, but there were several...

There are two tables set before us. Nowhere in the Gospels is the contrast between the banquets—the kingdom of God and the kingdoms of...

The story is commonly called the parable of the prodigal son, but that is too narrowly focused. It might be more aptly called The Tale of...

God found Hagar by a well in the wilderness. She had stopped at a spring for what could have been one last drink. And then an angel of...

Want to study about worship with me? OK, that’s a funny way to say it. But from time to time, people ask when and where I’ll be teaching...

One of the more brilliant things C. S. Lewis does in the Chronicles of Narnia series is to take a famous line from the first book he...

In our world, sin is seen as behaving badly, or breaking some arbitrary code of morality. But the Bible talks about sin in a different...

Durham Cathedral, built in 1093. When I first began, I was as giddy as a schoolboy, albeit a 35-year old schoolboy, back in September of...

The goal of the book is to help us learn to interrogate our instincts and intuitions by examining the social, emotional, linguistic, and...

We don’t understand each other. And I’m not sure how hard we’re trying. This is not a post about athletes or anthems, flags or protests....

What does it mean to be prophetic? The word is thrown around a lot, but depending on which circles you run in, it means something quite...