In the town where I grew up, every church is pretty much an evangelical church. The poorly-attended mainline and Catholic churches are usually no exception. The language clergy use is highly individualistic and the “goal” of most congregations is to get more people into heaven (i.e. “accept Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior”). […]
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Christmas: What Ugandan Dictators can learn from the late Roman Tyrants
What President of the NRM regime, Yoweri K. Museveni, must learn from the late Roman tyrants (the richest, most powerful people in world history, given inflation), whose power was threatened by the birth of a little Jewish kid in a barn: If you want to steal land to expand your empire, train your men under […]
The Incarnation: Some Christmas Reflections without Complaining about Materialism (yet)
The following are excerpts from a text I am working on. On evil and hope: One is forced to make a decision about God when confronted with the incarnation. Either God is now powerless (at least in some respects) in Christ’s humanity – a mere peasant of Nazareth, born of migrant parents among the animals, […]