Elgin Hushbeck Blog
Elgin Hushbeck, Jr., author of the Consider Christianity Series, has started a blog at Townhall.com.
Elgin will be commenting on issues related to religion and society.
Elgin Hushbeck, Jr., author of the Consider Christianity Series, has started a blog at Townhall.com.
Elgin will be commenting on issues related to religion and society.
Ted M. Gossard reviews Allan Bevere’s book All Is Not As It Seems: Random Reflections on Faith, Ethics, and Politics on his Jesus Community blog. Amongst other things he says: Wisdom is the word I would use to describe the book. And I mean down to earth, kingdom of God in Jesus oriented wisdom. I…
I believe those of us or teach, preach, or speak have a duty to make our lives representative of the gospel. By that I don’t mean that we become salvation by works perfectionists; our work is surrender, letting Jesus live through us. It’s often difficult to portray that in words. If one is forceful, one…
Geoffrey Lentz thinks Glenn Beck has a point, at least if you look at it from a certain perspective. He says: What would happen if we “let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an everlasting stream” (Amos)? It wouldn’t work out very well for me. And of course, that might force a change…
From Dave Black Online: Christianity is inescapably relational. None of us understands fully our relationships. But I for one am grateful for each one that I enjoy, beginning with the relationship I have with my Priscilla (Becky). I know I’m beginning to sound like a broken record, with all this talk about the priority of…
If your spiritual life needs nourishment, so does your intellectual life. The plain truth of the matter is that God created us as rational beings. Anti-intellectualism is therefore a serious threat to balanced Christianity. “It is fundamental with us,” wrote John Wesley, “that to renounce reason is to renounce religion, that religion and reason go…
The Coming One, Mary’s child, may not resolve all our problems, but God’s coming is an image of hope that may empower us to action. Hope encourages agency, not passivity. It opens the future, not determined, but influenced by what we do today. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/livingaholyadventure/2021/12/the-adventurous-lectionary-fourth-sunday-of-advent-december-19-2021/ Read the whole post at Bruce Epperly’s The Adventurous Lectionary. The…