by Doug Hammack | Oct 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
All we have to talk about God are metaphors (last post). But God can’t be contained in any construct we can hold in our brains. This dichotomy invites us to revisit one of our most familiar metaphors for God; a “person.” Through the centuries, we...
by Doug Hammack | Oct 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
Different metaphors for God make for very different spiritual journeys. It is an axiom that we become like the god we worship. Worship an angry god; you become angry. Worship a punitive god, you become punitive. Worship a hypocritical god – one who says “love, love...
by Doug Hammack | Oct 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
Every year or two, I listen to the collected speeches/sermons of Martin Luther King. I remember one illustration he used. If you’re by a river and a drowning man goes by, you jump in and save him. If another drowning man goes by, you jump in and save him too....
by Doug Hammack | Sep 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
We lost the culture wars because we lost our moral authority. We Christians have behaved badly. We have strong-armed money from the weak and elderly to build media empires. We have abandoned our own standards of sexual propriety, but publicly insisted that others...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
In the last post, we saw how the Chinese Communists defeated the Chinese Nationalists without guns or money. They defeated them with superior ideas, and their victory became the prototype of guerrilla resistance for the 20th century. When defeated in war, the...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
When I was an undergraduate, I studied history; mostly Chinese. I remember a moving story from one class that happened during the Communist-Nationalist struggle in the 1930’s. It is a story that informs how we Christians might think about having lost the culture wars....
