The Church is the body of Christ. Not figuratively. Literally. The way you’ll treat the Church tomorrow is the way you treat Jesus. From Stephen Kneale at Church Matters: If Christ is unified to his people, then what one does to his people is what one is doing to Christ. How one treats his people …
Popular culture and social media has made failure into a status symbol, but usually presents failing as an egalitarian stepping stone to entail success. Almost like a rite of passage. David Zahl points out that this cultural tendency to gloss over failure as a stepping stone to success short-changes the suffering of those who fail, …
These words were written with the season of Lent in mind, but they could easily be true of Good Friday as parts of Protestantism observe it. Each year we spend forty days pretending Jesus is going to die; we go hungry and grow—despite ourselves—angry; we prepare for what is going to take place. But it …
Anger with God is not unbelief. It is an aspect of faith that has reached its current limitations. Bonnie Zahl writes about the various ways in which a relationship with God will sometimes find us in pain and wrestling with him. Being in relationship with other Christians we need to grow together in grace and …
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