Tag: culture
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Jesus didn’t come to make Christians
“Jesus didn’t come to make Christians.” It’s something I said, practically in passing, at a faith discussion group that I help facilitate in my neighborhood. I recall that the discussion was making a turn toward identity politics (Who is or isn’t a Christian) or confessional pride (as in saying, “I believe in Jesus” and really…
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book: the girls who went away
I recently finished reading The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler. I was put onto it through a passing anecdote in a podcast; I can’t remember which podcast and I can’t even search it because I don’t think it was the main topic of the podcast episode, but I was intrigued so I pick…
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preface / faith worth passing on
In the past year (2024) I’ve slowly been writing some reflection on life and faith but I’ve kept it in a side document. Now that it’s the end of the year, I’m realizing that this endeavor will take longer to write than I thought so I’m gonna slowly release what I have so far as…
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cultural translation of the gospel
In seminary, I was part of a program that was a partnership between The Newbigin House of Studies and Western Theological Seminary that focused on urban church planting. During the course of my studies, there was a work that was central to our program: The Ephesian Moment. It’s an essay/chapter in The Cross-Cultural Process in…