Monthly Archives: September 2015

This article appeared in the September 16th edition of the Chanute Tribune. One of the things about the Christian faith that has been particularly liberating for me is that God’s love and forgiveness has freed me to begin to be honest about my failures (which are legion). Unfortunately, our natural […]

No More Nike Christianity

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  The following article appeared in the September 9th edition of the Chanute Tribune. Within conservative evangelical Christianity in America, there has been a tendency to think about the gospel—the good news of what Jesus has done for sinners—almost exclusively in terms of how we become Christians. We see it […]

The Power of the Good News

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This article appeared in the September 3rd edition of the Chanute Tribune. Part of the reason there are so many different interpretations of the Bible is because there are so many different ways of reading the Bible. The questions we bring to the biblical text often determine what we take […]

The Bible with God at the Center

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The following article appeard in the August 25th edition of The Chanute Tribune. Although it has been nearly thirty years since I was a student at Royster Middle School, I clearly remember the Sallman print of Jesus that hung on wall at the end of the hallway on the second […]

The Jesus Picture

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