On yesterday’s episode of #OffTheHighway, Dr. Randy Woodley shared a couple of thoughts on why, perhaps, many of us do not tangibly experience God. It is a thought-provoking 3 minutes that you can check out here. Dr. Woodley states that we have made the Creation to be unnatural and the unnatural (human-manufactured) world to be […]
On this morning’s episode of #OffTheHighway, the uncontainable Micky ScottBey Jones hardly flinches when I ask her to deliver a message to White Culture. She is charming and direct and yet, behind her unflappable demeanor, when I look carefully into her eyes, I see someone who is tired. And rightly so. Her, as she puts it, […]
I saw the movie Selma on opening day with some friends. It was a very emotional experience. It was an honor to sit and watch surrounded by my “neighbors” and their emotions were audible throughout the film. Just in the background, a couple of times, there was a song. I don’t know where I know […]
Thanks to my new housemate, Matt, I learned last night that our dear brothers and sisters from Westboro Baptist would be unleashing their particular form of “protest” toward the attendees of the Gay Christian Network conference this morning here in my beloved Portland, Oregon. Well, since I try not to let sh– go down in […]
In today’s episode of #OffTheHighway, Lisa Sharon Harper responded to my question, “What are we, society and the church, missing in regards to these important social issues (race, violence, protesting etc.) in our world today?” Her answer cut to the very root of the problem… It boils down to “Who is regarded as the most […]
(This is a guest post from my dear friend, Micky Jones. Please read and consider adding these mediations to your Advent.) Dear Friends, Advent is a time when sentimentality and spiritualization reigns. But, in more ancient forms of Christianity, Advent was more a season of penitence, not unlike Lent. Today, that call for repentance includes […]
