Feb 27, 2019 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
"Only near-sighted people can suppose that Christianity has seen its time. Christianity has only taken its first, I would say timid, steps in human history. To this day many of Christ’s words are incomprehensible because we are still moral and spiritual...
Jan 2, 2019 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
The gospel calls humanity to stop trusting violence. If Jesus is the sovereign Lord of all things, if he is King, not just of heaven but of earth, then today’s gospel (John 18:33-37) tells us that those who are apprenticed to his kingdom have renounced violence as the...
Dec 28, 2018 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Birth of Jesus by Georgian artist David Popiashvili It must be apparent to anyone that there’s no religion or ideology that in the name of progress, in the pursuit of power, with the goal of “winning,” in perfect assurance of its rightness, will not sacrifice the...
Dec 20, 2018 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
There is a “blessed assurance” about the goodness of the One who knows every sparrow fall. Yet this trust is on the far side of contemplating—no, experiencing—the cruel pointlessness of the death of even small things, the dryness of the avian corpse, the shocking...
Dec 18, 2018 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Art by Odolin Redon This idea that humans are endowed by their creator with inalienable rights is beautiful, and that humans alone in all of creation bear the image of God is a mystery beyond description, but that God *is* human—this is nothing less than a revolution...
Nov 10, 2018 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Reader: How might you respond to a feminist critique of the incarnation that says that if God is endlessly incarnate in the person of Jesus then this means God is male? Is this inherently patriarchal? Response: Who did Jesus get the flesh from? Part of the...
