Gift Undeserved

Religious faith — for all its problems, despite its maddening tendency to replicate ungrace — lives on because we sense the numinous beauty of a gift undeserved that comes at unexpected moments from Outside.  Refusing to believe that our lives of guilt and shame lead to nothing but annihilation, we hope against hope for another [...]

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The Institutional Church & Reform

Unless the institutional church undergoes complete reform, she will eventually reach a point of no return. Unless she’s redeemed, some future historian will be led to write a history on the Rise and Fall of Western Christianity. For without regeneration, the apostate church may some day be ready for an isolated corner of history. If [...]

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Change and Churches

There is no more cruel taskmaster than bad theology. But good theology can free people from the fear of change. For example:
if your security rests in the church,
if we see restoration as reproducing carbon copies of “the first-century” blueprint,
if we feel that we have already completed the restoration task,
if we believe our salvation rests on [...]

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From a “Soul Survivor”

“Every writer has one main theme, a spoor that he or she keeps sniffing around, tracking, following to its source. If had to define my own theme, it would be that of a person who absorbed some of the worst of the church has to offer, yet still landed in the loving arms of God. [...]

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