Teaching Nonviolent Atonement
James Comey testified that Trump is a liar. Trump accused Comey of lying. Who is telling the truth? Join Adam Ericksen as he explores this question and the courage it takes to tell the truth. Read more
James Comey testified that Trump is a liar. Trump accused Comey of lying. Who is telling the truth? Join Adam Ericksen as he explores this question and the courage it takes to tell the truth. Read more
The Psalms have a bad reputation in many circles. Atheists criticize the Psalms, and the Bible in general, for being violent and bloodthirst. It’s hard to disagree when one Psalm prays that God will dash the heads of the babies of Israel’s enemies against giant rocks. Ouch. How the Bible Subverts Violence But the French anthropologist René Girard taught us that we shouldn’t be surprised that there’s violence in the Bible. After all, human history has taught us that we... Read more
Year A, The Day of Pentecost June 4th, 2017 John 7:37-39 Rev. Tom Truby The Last and Most Important Day of the Festival When the lectionary writers chose a gospel for the Day of Pentecost in Year A, they selected a passage from the Gospel of John. In the Common English Bible this passage reads “On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted…” Maybe the Day of Pentecost can be thought of as... Read more
Monkeys continue to teach us about the human desire for equality, but what if scientific experiments have the wrong starting point? Suzanne Ross engages Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times to reveal the underlying cause of human conflict. Indeed, this is more than just monkey business! Read more
Stabbings in Portland. A politician body slams a reporter. And Kathy Griffin "jokes" about beheading Donald Trump. Adam Ericksen explains how American culture got to this point and where we can go from here. Read more
Year A, Easter 7, May 28th, 2017 By Reverends Tom and Laura Truby Acts 1:6-11 A Faith That Excludes No One We arrived at Wilson Ranches Retreat Bed and Breakfast on Saturday night with plans to stay for two nights. As was their tradition, the Wilsons served a big ranch breakfast at 8 the next morning and the ranch house was full with 16 guests eating at a long table. They served dark roast coffee, orange juice, scrambled eggs, bacon,... Read more
"The only way to honor those who lost their lives in war is to stop the cycle of lies that sacrifice human beings on the altar of militarism." Join Lindsey Paris-Lopez in honoring the dead by renouncing war lies, repenting of violence, and refusing to sacrifice anyone else. Read more
Chelsea Manning was released from military prison last week. She served 7 of her thirty-five year sentence for leaking secret documents and military cables to Wikileaks. Many people, including politicians like Donald Trump and John McCain, claim that Chelsea is a dangerous traitor who should serve her full sentence. But in this podcast, Lindsey Paris-Lopez and I discuss how she is not a traitor. In fact, she’s a Christ-like hero. Listen to the podcast or watch the video below to... Read more
Donald Trump just made an arms deal with Saudi Arabia worth about $110 billion. While the Trump administration celebrates the deal, Adam Ericksen says we are damning ourselves to a future of self-destructive violence. Is God damning us, too? Is there hope for a way forward? Find out in Adam's latest article! Read more
Year A, Easter 5 May 14th, 2017 1 Peter 2:1-10 Mother’s Milk and Rejected Stones Just as a baby grows from drinking milk from her mother’s breast, so we grow into salvation as we drink the pure milk of the word. Our reading from First Peter gives us a good place to start on Mother’s Day. Salvation is not something that happens to us all of a sudden, like a movement from being “out” to being “in.” We are “in”... Read more
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