Jul 15, 2019 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
“How do you read?” I marvel at the question Jesus asks the lawyer in Luke 10 and have for about 5-6 years. It still touches something at my core, that God in human flesh invites this man (and us) into a communal reading of Scripture with him. The lawyer starts by...
Jul 11, 2019 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
God is not in control of everything that happens. Many persons will be murdered this evening, some of them for faith, and many will tonight die excruciating deaths from cancer and avoidable disasters, many of them children. God does not will these things to happen,...
Jun 13, 2019 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
You have, I am sure, run into persons that say, "God can do whatever he wants because he is God" as a defense for God behaving in ways that we would otherwise call sociopathic for humans.This is often partnered with an accusation: that human...
May 30, 2019 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
The Ascension changed everything, for the event discloses a great mystery: that to be God is, in essence, to be human, to be flesh and blood, because of Jesus Christ.A human is now forever God in the person of the Son, and what it means to be God is now forever tied...
May 18, 2019 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Embryonic, fetal, and female human persons form a sacred matrix of life, the first cosmos and environment of human flourishing. Even before the earth, for humans our first and most vital environment is womankind. Our collective society, in all of its political...
Apr 22, 2019 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Resurrection by Luca Giordano (1632–1705) I find it amusing, this great befuddlement that befalls some intelligent Christians when it comes to the definition of resurrection. On Holy Saturday the New York Times published an interview with the president...
