Feb 27, 2020 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
This day we mark ashen crosses on our foreheads is a day of remembrance. We remember three things by this ancient practice, a practice that itself recalls how those in grief would look “ashen” because sorrow kept them from cleansing themselves in a world warmed and...
Jan 7, 2020 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
The church’s gradual and at times nearly complete break with the pattern of her Lord and of the first Christians on the question of war is yet another public witness to the unconscious practical atheism of many whose mantra is “in God we trust.” Either we believe...
Nov 20, 2019 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Someone finally described perfect eschatology. This is my only answer now about my end or the world’s end or when Christ is coming again. Bear in mind that the definition of "world" here is not “the earth” or “the cosmos” or “material creation” but “the...
Oct 3, 2019 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Folks undergoing what my friend Brad Jersak calls “faith renovation” often ask me to suggest books as companions on their journey. What follows are thirty-five small(ish) books to heal hurting hearts and bewildered minds by introducing and inviting them to the older,...
Aug 13, 2019 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
What we see Christians doing and saying in the name of Jesus Christ in this country is alarming, frustrating, disturbing and—yes—angering. I tend to the wounded daily. I see the tears in their eyes and hear the hurt in their hearts. I witness the harm and it crushes...
Jul 25, 2019 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
As a pastor who deals (almost daily) with the devastation wrought in souls by bad readings of Scripture, I wish every contemporary Christian on the planet could read this passage. It’s the beginning of a section called “How the Divine Scripture is to be read and...
