Mar 4, 2017 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
It is not the obligation of the Christian pastor or of the local church to foster love of country. While the Christian can be grateful for her nation (land, people, heritage) because there is always created goodness even in broken places and people, her loyalty is...
Nov 18, 2016 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
When the divine community we call God created the visible (and invisible) universe they spoke words like "let there be light" and things that were not in one moment began to exist in the next. Stars. Planets. Oceans. Mountains. Trees. Animals. Flowers. All...
Oct 8, 2016 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
"If she could carry You, it was because You, the great mountain, had lightened Your weight; If she feeds You, it is because You had taken on hunger, if she gives You to drink, it is because You, of Your own will, had thirsted." —Saint Ephrem the Syrian. God...
Aug 18, 2016 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
"Foxes have dens to live in, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place even to lay his head." It’s tempting for contemporary Americans to think of Jesus along the mythos of Superman: an alien humanoid capable of...
Jun 30, 2016 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
The liturgies of the first Christians, the historic patterns of worship, inherited also from the synagogue and temple, are our best chance not to end up worshiping the dollar, or the idea of America, the angry (or the coddling) gods of human projection—even of...
Jun 15, 2016 | Author - Brad Jersak, Author - Kenneth Tanner
Final conversation from True Detective (full video link – language warning). Marty: “Didn’t you tell me one time, dinner once, maybe, about how you used to … you used to make up stories about the stars?” Rust: “Yeah, that was in Alaska, under the night...
