Jared Wilson writes against the niceties that compel Christians (who should no better) to maintain appearances of being okay. If there’s one place on earth everyone should feel free not to be okay, it’s the church: I know the reasons we don’t live transparently with each other. We’re afraid. We’re embarrassed. We don’t want to …
Michael Milton relates an episode from his past life experience of receiving a safety warning while working on an oil field and draws a parallel application to spiritual health: [The warning from his foreman] “When you smell rotten-eggs at the well site, boys, you are smelling a poisonous, corrosive, flammable gas that is hydrogen sulfide. …
Local churches don’t need more people to come along to save them. They have the task of sharing with others about the one who has already saved them. From Sarah Condon: The fact of the matter is that most of our ideas about how to fix the church are terrible, my own included. We over-exaggerate …
More musing from fictional pastor Jonas McAnn, as written by Winn Collier: If the idea of providence means anything, then it must a least mean that our life consists of all manner of truths and experiences we would never imagine and could never orchestrate. The old mystics liked to say that “all is gift.” I …
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