Writings

Unacknowledged racism is still racism

Unacknowledged, even unrecognized, racism is still racism — and it is fueling a frenzy within American life to advance the age-old, sin-drenched idea that social power belongs exclusively to white …

A short, challenging pop quiz

Here’s a short quiz. Where in the four Gospels does Jesus call for believers to accept him as their personal savior? (Some Jeopardy music would be nice should anyone be …

Questions of apprenticeship

“Jesus wasn’t trying to get people to agree with him,” said Joseph Yoo in a recent social media posting. “He was inviting people to follow him.”  It is an important …

A preposterous idea

Call it ridiculous, even utterly absurd. Excuse the redundancy, please. Surely such a far-fetched proposal, however, deserves all the adjectives that appear to fit. One might even call it a …

Through what lenses do we see?

“Americanized Christianity” is my descriptive term of choice to distinguish this particular nationalized version from other expressions bearing the larger brand. There have been and are so many versions that …

An identity crisis in need of reckoning

Tracing the nearly complete identity fusion of white Americanized evangelicalism and MAGA political ideology requires nothing more than paying attention and being honest about what is seen. Not to beat …

When adults fail children’s Sunday School

In gigantic — like Goliath — numbers, white Americanized Christian adults are failing Sunday School.  That is, children’s Sunday School. The primary lessons seemed simple enough, well taught and widely …

The day they moved my church

By Jon Roebuck An interesting story appeared across various news sources in late August 2025. The Kiruna Church in Sweden had to be carefully moved to a new location.  Due …