Words mean different things to different people. Sometimes we need to step into their heads to understand what is meant or, if all else f...

This is usually not expressed so clearly, but it does happen. We identify the person with their sin instead of seeing their heart, and...

People of the Second Chance (overthrow judgment. liberate love) bills itself as "a global community of activists, imperfectionists a...

The words in the first panel of this cartoon come from a sermon I heard recently. It is the passage from Matthew 25 about the ten virgi...

"People are people so why should it be, You and I should get along so awfully..." (from "People are people" by Depe...

From Miroslav Volf's book Exclusion and Embrace : But what about those who in the name of truth oppress the weak? This brings us to th...

It's easy to "love" people from a distance. But do they feel the love?  It's also easy to label people from a distanc...

From Miroslav Volf's book Exclusion and Embrace , discussing the prodigal son: For the father, the priority of the relationship means ...

Definitely not the story that Jesus told, and definitely not a picture of our heavenly Father who loves all his children.

What we do and what we say are often not in sync, and it seems that "opposite Sunday" has made this apparent to this pastor. No...

A "Guess who's coming to dinner" program would be a lot more exciting if the invitations were handed out on street corners...

From Miroslav Volf's book Exclusion and Embrace : An advantage of conceiving sin as the practice of exclusion is that it names as sin ...

It's been said that what we value is seen less by our words and more by what we spend our time, energy and resources on. If that'...

From Carl Greg's post “Why Not Choose Love? Picking and Choosing Scripture as a Twenty-first Century Christian" Progressive Chris...

I often hear Christians use the phrase "love the sinner and hate the sin" when responding to the topic of homosexuality. Little...