Irony: Jesus and the 'sinners' He hung out with.
Do the writers of the books and letters that make up the Bible have a sense of irony? In the Gospel of Mark in particular, there seems to be an underlying irony in nearly every chapter.
What are you 'unwilling to destroy'?
WOW… so that sounds totally horrible right? Why would God order such wanton and complete destruction? (Not the sort of verse most people have in their Facebook/Twitter profile.)
Meticulous Measurements of Not Much.
“You can’t tell if a book is any good by the number of words it contains…”
We keep coming up with new things to measure… but it’s pretty rare that those measurements are actually a proxy for the impact or quality we care about.
A Sea of Beauty.
A photographic revelation saturated with unfiltered GLORY right in front of me, delicately and carelessly concealed.
Faith: From Dead to Living.
In the faith tradition I grew up in, being ‘dead in our sins’ was taken very seriously. We were often told that we were born horrible sinners and that we had nothing good in us at all - that even our best actions were riddled with sinful selfishness. This tradition took being dead in our sins very seriously.
Literally.
The Greatest Commandment
Jesus’ ‘neighborhood’ was full of outsiders, foreigners, sinners, the nameless + broken + poor… That’s who He ‘loved as himself’.
Fear: The Voice Calling us backwards
Fear is the constant voice calling us to anoint a leader to take us back to the past.