Richard Beck on his blog has an excellent post about Lady Gaga and how she embodies the gospel: In short, in this song [Bad Kid] Gaga is...

From Richard Beck's book, unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality . Regarding a study which (put briefly) investigat...

Once in a while, Pastor Stickman's resistance to wearing his reading glasses does him good. And further to dog's love for us, ...

Why is it that the "gay = sin" card so often trumps the "love your neighbour as yourself" card? I realize that so...

I couldn't resist posting this image from www.postsecret.com  (week of January 21/12). It illustrates how we sometimes judge people b...

The pastor and church doesn't treat lgbt people the same as straight people, yet claims to not be anti-gay. Do you agree? Does it ma...

Would you believe the slave owner who says that he does not hate his slaves? Would you even need to ask the slaves their opinion on this ...

From Richard Beck's book,  unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality In sum, the antagonism between mercy and sacrifi...

And how can we encourage one another to be more like the Jesus we read about in the Gospels?

History repeats. With the occasional hiccup, the extraordinary disruption that changes everything, but unfortunately not everyone....

After reading Exclusion and Embrace by Volf, I heard about Richard Beck’s book unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality...

I doubt that when making his point, Pastor Stickman expected to have it illustrated so immediately or so aptly. Not only is god taking ca...

For those of you whose understanding or use of the Greek letter lambda is related to physics, biology, ecology, criminology or some other...

From Miroslav Volf's book Exclusion and Embrace : Inscribed on the very heart of God’s grace is the rule that we can be its recipients...