Yes, intellectual pride is a real and serious spiritual problem for Jesus followers. It's detrimental to human flourishing and, like all sins, impairs our connection with God. Having spent a lot of time on the campus of Christian college and universities, I can assure you that I'm well-aware of the problem and have little patience for this particular vice. I tend to confront … [Read more...] about Beatnik Christianity Suggests Anti-Intellectual Bullies Go Forward for the Children’s Sermon
Civil Rights Movement
Beatnik Christianity Celebrates Racial Diversity
Jesus is King. His Kingdom is a transformative, counterculture movement for a peaceful world living into God’s perfect will for human flourishing. The principles undergirding this movement are love, truth, grace, compassion, forgiveness, hope, humility, justice, mercy, sustainability, redemption, and wisdom. It is a beautiful vision that transcends such barriers as sex, … [Read more...] about Beatnik Christianity Celebrates Racial Diversity
Why Do I Support the Black Lives Matter Movement?
Why do I support the Black Lives Matter movement? The full answer is far more complicated than this, but in the interest of brevity my perspective distills down to four reasons: A decade ago, I read Dr. King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" for the first time. It wrecked me. As a white man who was in his mid-20s at the time and wrote a blog entitled "Musings of a … [Read more...] about Why Do I Support the Black Lives Matter Movement?
Echoes from the Past: Historical Reflections on the White Christian Vitriol Toward BLM
Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, "We are not makers of history; we are made by history." Some have taken this quote to mean history decides who we are because we're inevitably shaped and formed by the world. Yet in the larger context of the sermon, it becomes clear Dr. King was driving at the exact opposite meaning. It was about taking responsibility. Dr. King understood … [Read more...] about Echoes from the Past: Historical Reflections on the White Christian Vitriol Toward BLM
