Category: Attentiveness

Hamilton Commencement is this Saturday and Charlotte’s is a week later. As I’ve written before on the occasion of graduation week, there will be a lot of “Congratulations” all around—celebrating years of study, formation, and friendships— followed by soft-spoken “Goodbyes.”

To be a Christian today, a Jesus follower who accepts the joy of being a witness, we need to think of ourselves as “coming alongside” people.

To be a Christian today, a Jesus follower who accepts the joy of being a witness, we need to think of ourselves as “coming alongside” people.

To be a Christian today, a Jesus follower who accepts the joy of being a witness, we need to think of ourselves as “coming alongside” people.

Perkins embodied a basic outline for his life as a faithful servant of Christ. This included: relocation, reconciliation, redistribution.

March 8 was International Women’s Day. It is not a Christian holiday, but I believe it can and should be baptized and sacralized by Christians. Why? Let me explain. 

I would suggest that being a Christian itself—thoroughly seeking to please God and to love him fully—is extreme. It is far more extreme than all the excessive passions and desires that are incited by images and themes in our media today.

We are what we remember. Or, more accurately, we come to understand who we are and whose we are through what we remember. The past shapes our present. Our history is present with us now.

Faithful Christian living—expressed through all the Scriptural directives regarding issues of mercy, justice, and even holiness—extends beyond our private lives. Even beyond the walls of the church.

The Bible, on the other hand—this is where I like the word inerrancy or the God-breathed Word—is the one source of eternal truth that gives us eyes to see and understand ourselves and the world around us.