Can the Blind Lead the Blind?

A lot can change in one generation. Forty years ago, a year before a man walked on the moon, middle-class Americans thought their youth were protected from many evils in suburbia. I grew up in pristine suburbia and watched most my neighbors go to church, at least on Sunday morning. Life and TV seemed idyllic [...]

Freedom and Conscience: The Stewardship Issue

In Christian Unity I pointed out that the Apostle Paul’s path of Christian unity called for spiritual maturity in the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 1-3; see also the prayers of Philippians 1:9-11, Colossians 1:9-12, and Ephesians 1:15-22 and 3:14-21). Leaders must discern the path that best follows Christ’s mind and soundly build upon [...]

Hermeneutics: Interpretation and Sounds of Silence

It seems that I just cannot keep silent about silence. John the Baptist abstained from wine and excused himself from an ordinary social life for eating locusts and wild honey in the wilderness. Jesus turned the water into the best wine, ate and drank with sinners and tax collectors; but nevertheless, did make [...]

Flesh is Flesh and Spirit is Spirit

Jesus explained to Nicodemus, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” (John 3:6). Later Jesus compared the one born of the Spirit to the wind: “The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, [...]