Writings

The irrelevance of Jesus

Why is Jesus so irrelevant for so many who claim to be Christian? Does it matter that swarms of the most loudly proclaiming Christians in America — who have professed …

Reorienting our maps

Being spiritually “lost” was a common concern (or accusation) in the conservative faith tradition so familiar to many of us. Tragically now, it this very slice of white Americanized Christianity …

Shady, angry people

The Christian testimony that many Americanized Christians don’t want to hear is when someone tells of leaving their familiar fundamentalist/evangelical subculture in order to find Jesus. In the second season …

Failing Jesus 101

White Americanized Christians in large numbers keep failing Jesus 101 — even though it is an open-book test. The one thing Jesus so often called his followers not to do …