Oct 27, 2023 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
There is a turn in human existence when for more than three hundred years the first Christians follow Jesus in the way of peace-without insurgencies, without rebellions, without riots. It is the first such sustained movement of non-violence before or after,...
Feb 9, 2023 | Author - Kenneth Tanner, Book Reviews
Courage shielded her brother until the rescuers arrived.This is from David Hart’s moving argument for the gospel’s God, The Doors of the Sea (2005). Read it when you are ready for something beautiful to take hold of your heart forever. “In the New York Times this...
Jan 14, 2023 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Icon: Copyright Oleksandr Antoniuk – UPB to KT When we tell the story of the world well, it is converting, not condemning. The world’s true story gives life.And we cannot tell the world’s story well—we cannot tell our story well—if we do not tell God’s story...
Dec 25, 2022 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Icon by by Ivanka Demchuk UBP The story of the world—the story we just heard read in the church as our gospel for Christmas, the world’s true story from which all true stories are told—happened in a world exactly like our world.It was as is ours a world of...
Dec 13, 2022 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
It is true that the church is universal and so everywhere, enveloping all creation. The church does not have borders or rails or walls.I had a friend whose church was the massive entourage of workers that accompanied the global tours of a rock group. Marriages....
Aug 3, 2022 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
You might be a Christian nationalist if you believe that one nation on earth has a special vocation to be a Christian nation as an example or sign for all other nations.You might be a Christian nationalist if you believe that God founded your nation as a superior...
