I set out one night When the tide was low There were signs in the sky But I did not know I’d be caught…
Is Everything Political?
Community / Ordinary Life / Pluralistic World / Spirituality
In Our Only World (2015), Wendell Berry argues that people must be careful to resist the temptation of politicization: the habit of mind that…
A Conversation About Ferguson
Community / Culture / Safe Place / Spirituality
Introduction Meet Greg Pitchford and Luke Bobo. Luke is a 55 year-old African-American male and Greg is a 51 year-old White-American male. Luke lives…
Blaming God
Faith / Scripture / Spirituality
The long line of ants parading across the kitchen counter leads to a jar of sticky strawberry jelly left open last night by someone…
Living in Time
Living in time in a fallen world Though his ideas on the topic are much more richly complex than this, Thomas Oden proposes a…
A Thread In the Tapestry God Weaves
At the heart of our vision in Ransom Fellowship is the conviction that our primary calling as Christians is to be faithful in the…
Politics and Perspective: Possible paths and perils
You’re a reasonable person. When it comes to politics, while you do tend to vote for one party more than others, you don’t think…
Creation Turned Bad
Bill Gates recently included a fascinating graphic on his blog to highlight the deadliness of mosquito borne illnesses, a problem the Gates Foundation is…
The Ravens, Considered
One of the ways the New Testament Gospels lend plausibility to what they record is in the ring of authenticity that is found in…
Vital Questions About Your Life
Discernment / Maturity and Flourishing / Spirituality
In a brief piece posted online on The Huffington Post (03/02/2014), Susie Moore, a life coach in New York City listed “5 Killer Life…