[God] is not to be fenced in, under human control, like some domestic creature; he is the wildest being in existence.
– Wendell Berry, Christianity and The Survival of Creation
[God] is not to be fenced in, under human control, like some domestic creature; he is the wildest being in existence.
– Wendell Berry, Christianity and The Survival of Creation
The other night, it occurred to me how much the Christmas story is a tale of international intrigue. A head of state meets with visitors from another country and tries to co-opt them into providing sensitive information about a suspected security threat. But the conspirators are warned and escape to an African nation. Continue reading “Jesus the Spy”
Unjust things often happen to good people. Inconvenient things constantly happen to good people. Unpleasant things frequently happen to good people. Tragic things sometimes happen to good people. But nothing happens to God’s people that God doesn’t allow and bless. Continue reading “Bad things don’t happen to good people”
Another in the series of common yet undocumented heresies: let’s call this one “non-theistic space.” Astrophysicists theorize about alternate universes that we can’t touch. Non-theistic space contains the areas which God can’t control. Continue reading “Non-theistic space”
When I read about other countries destroying their own infrastructure, I ask myself why the United States doesn’t do the same thing. Well, we did once, in the 1860’s. And since then, maybe we just haven’t had a domestic cause important enough to die for.
Or have we? Continue reading “Why the U.S. has no more civil wars”
Are these signs true of your church?
If not, why not?
Like a sword, the word of God is only powerful when it’s applied to a specific point, or along a specific line. Like a scalpel, its purpose is not to stimulate you generally, but to heal you precisely. It has to cut away something.