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Praying for National Death and Resurrection – 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...
The Sermon On the Mount and Caesar’s Sword – Brian Zahnd
The Sermon On the Mount and Caesar’s SwordBrian Zahnd As I call Christians to the practices of radical forgiveness and nonviolent peacemaking that Jesus embodied and most clearly sets forth in the Sermon on the Mount, I often encounter Christians using Romans 13:1–7...
Constantine in Canada – Ron Dart – with Vancouver letter re: Franklin Graham
Constantine in Canada: The Conservative Evangelicals Ron S. Dart When Eusebius gave his “Oration to Constantine” in the 4th century of the Common Era, it was understandable why he lauded Constantine. There had been a tragic history for Christians (never...
Kierkegaard: Father of Christianity without the religion – Interview with Stephen Backhouse
Originally posted on CWR blog by Brad Jersak Art by Delphine Lebourgeois Kierkegaard: Father of Christianity without the religion - Interview with Stephen Backhouse CWR magazine is known to our readers as promoting Christianity Without the Religion. But...
How The Shack unveils toxic representations of God – Brad Jersak
How is it, I ask, that Rublev’s icon isn’t tossed onto the book-burning stacks along with The Shack? No doubt it would have been if Orthodox believers were incapable of using limited human expressions (words or pictures) for the divine mysteries.
Review of “Mystical Landscapes: From Vincent van Gogh to Emily Carr” – by Ron Dart with Lazar Puhalo
Review of Mystical Landscapes: From Vincent van Gogh to Emily Carr. Edited by Katharine Lochman with Roald Nasgaard & Bogomila Welsch-Ovcharov (New York: DelMonico Books, 2016). Review by Ron Dart There has been a regrettable tendency to falsely...
Learn Words … or else. Brad Jersak
Learn words.
If you can no longer come up with a word for an idea in your mind, soon you will no longer be able to think that idea. A shrinking vocabulary leads to a crippled imagination. Read glossaries. Beware of slogans, because they are a conscious assault on your ability to speak or think outside the prescribed cliches of your own movement’s indoctrination (via their news sources, pulpits and podcasts). And that’s on purpose. Learn words.
Freedom requires imagination.
Imagination requires thought.
Thought requires words.
Learn words.
“Cyrus Candidate” or Charismatic Catastrophe? – Brian Zahnd
Note: The rise of Donald Trump to the presidency has been accompanied by a flurry of prophetic pronouncements, describing him as God's 'Cyrus Candidate," who has the "Breaker Anointing" -- God's "Trumpet" to lead America to...
“run out …” – a short story by Azariah France-Williams
run out... I looked back at the dark bedroom, signs of our struggle were all around. The dislodged lampshade, the Venetian window blinds fanning back into the room bent at odd angles, and his half naked body. The large man with trimmed beard and dark short spiked...
“Him” – a short story – by Lily Phoenix
I close the door and leave him in there, in his sanctuary. Why on earth one man needs four garden sheds is beyond me. Of course, this one is his favourite, it's the wood shed, with the tools and all the bits and pieces hung up or in jars or old margarine tubs. He...