THE BOANERGES BROTHERS,ME AND HAMAS: An admirable loyalty but a deplorable devotion.
As I reflected on the story of the ‘sons of thunder’ in scripture, three questions arose:
Firstly, I wonder what Jesus might choose as a nickname for me.
Secondly, what is my “Samaritan village” that evokes a desire for fire and destruction.
Finally, whatever I do, “don’t the pagans do the same?”
A DOMICIDAL WAR IN GAZA: and the blah blahs of the Christian Church
Sadly, it seems like the only appropriate response many Christians the West feel comfortable in offering to the current conflict in Gaza is the blah blah blah of theological rhetoric. Every discussion at every service and every meeting has been overshadowed by repeated, empty and overlong arguments of who is right and who is wrong, who is to blame and who is the victim. Quite frankly, I’ve had enough. And maybe you have too.