Category: Culture
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Empire & Kingdom: Should Christians Support Strong Borders?
Read more: Empire & Kingdom: Should Christians Support Strong Borders?You’ve probably seen by now all the pictures of children being taken away from their parents. You’ve also probably seen the detention centers, the TIME magazine cover, the blog posts, the tweets, AG Jeff Sessions defending the practice by quoting Romans 13, President Trump saying that he couldn’t do anything about it, blaming Democrats, doing…
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Mill City Art Show
Read more: Mill City Art ShowI am so excited to share with you all about an art show that I am helping to organize. At Mill City Church, where I am a member, our small groups are organized around distinct missional purposes. The group that I am a part of, called Craft, is oriented towards the Arts community of Northeast Minneapolis.…
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Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Read more: Black Dignity in a World Made for WhitenessWhite Space Maintaining black dignity in white space is the name of the game of life for a black person in the Anglo-American realm. Conversational and cultural norms are undoubtedly white in this realm. This can be brutal in its exhaustion and confusion and can be seriously disorienting for black folk working and living in this space.…
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Why I Love the Red Panda Named Aggretsuko
Read more: Why I Love the Red Panda Named AggretsukoNow that summer break is here, I finally had time to binge watch a Netflix show, and discovered Aggretsuko, an anime series based on a Sanrio character. Retsuko is a cute little red panda, and while she is a sweet, compliant, 25-year old accountant by day, she is a death-metal karaoke singer by night. She…
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The Good, The Bad, and the Marginalized
Read more: The Good, The Bad, and the MarginalizedWe don’t live in a Western film. You know, the one where the good guys wear white and outshoot the dastardly villains in black? That kind of world in which exist only the good, the bad, and the ugly, is not our world. It would certainly be easier if the true villains of our world’s…
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Reckless Love: A Response to John Piper
Read more: Reckless Love: A Response to John PiperRecently a new phenomenon has hit the Christian scene becoming a staple of most radio stations and many Sunday morning worship services, Reckless Love. No, not the Finnish Guns and Roses cover band, the worship song by Cory Asbury. This song, despite its insanely huge popularity, has taken some criticism from many high profile Christian…
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“Try Walkin’ Like Jesus”: A Critique of Christian Political Inaction on Gun Violence from A Perfect Circle
Read more: “Try Walkin’ Like Jesus”: A Critique of Christian Political Inaction on Gun Violence from A Perfect CircleI began writing this blog post over week ago, and I had no idea that it would be appearing after yet another school shooting. Once again, we hear the refrain of Christian political inaction: “Thoughts and Prayers.” The repetition of it all lulls us back to sleep. “This is America.” And in America, complacency is…
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Reflections on Beth Moore’s “A Letter to My Brothers”
Read more: Reflections on Beth Moore’s “A Letter to My Brothers”This past week, Beth Moore wrote a heartfelt and amazing blog post called, “A Letter to My Brothers”, articulating the hardships of being a prominent women leader in the conservative evangelical community. As I read it, I was grateful that she had the courage to write honestly about her experiences as a woman in ministry,…
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The Surprising Thing that Liberals and Conservatives Have In Common
Read more: The Surprising Thing that Liberals and Conservatives Have In CommonThere may be some hope for political unity between liberals and conservatives. In this day and age, it seems that more than ever, America is divided. It feels like a constant tug-o-war and with every article and counter-article, both sides only seem to dig their heels in a little deeper. Each blog or video causes…
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Using Context for Compassion
Read more: Using Context for CompassionI recently had the opportunity to finish up a Trinity course for my ThM studies. Despite the mysteriousness of the topic, it was quite phenomenal to be reading and comparing the thoughts of our early church fathers to more recent theologians. While we didn’t get the opportunity to tackle whole texts like Augustine’s, De Trinitate,…