Jun 12, 2020 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
"WE HAVE SINNED" – Daniel 9:5 That people are in an important sense held responsible for things that happened before they were born is a frequent theme in Old Testament descriptions of humanity and how the world works. There is in the collective...
Jun 5, 2020 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
It’s easy to pose with a Bible in front of a church. It’s hard to allow yourself to be encountered by the Living God that walks its pages. It’s easy to burn down a Muslim family’s small restaurant in Minneapolis. It’s hard to build a business over decades with your...
May 20, 2020 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Against our attempts to make the resurrection a ghost party, like a wisp of fog on hot tea, Jesus appears among us forever with “real wounds,” shows us that resurrection is a matter of flesh and bones, of broiled fish and honeycomb. Christ reveals that his...
Apr 17, 2020 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Conspiracy theories are a lot like Gnosticism. They claim that only an enlightened few know what is actually going on in the world and what almost everyone else knows is a lie; that the knowledge available to the average person on the street is unreliable. The true...
Apr 8, 2020 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+484 (NASA) The universe is vast, mysterious, dark, and lovely. The images of the universe that we are the first privileged humans to see boggle the mind and provoke deep emotion. The size and beauty of the cosmos compel us to ask questions of...
Mar 3, 2020 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Planet of the Apes final scene, recreated by Tony Hoffarth | Flikr You either believe that the end is the arrival of power, or you believe that the end is the arrival of nothing, or you believe that the end is the arrival of love.A lot of people believe we are waiting...
