Yesterday I was interviewed by a sharp religion columnist with Religion and Ethics Newsweekly for PBS. Kim Lawton has worked hard to learn what “emergent” means, and I was deeply appreciative of the questions she had the mind to ask. She was fair; she remains curious; and she is willing to listen and learn. She…

A quote worth remembering: The light of Christ’s life reaches us through the Church as the community of those who, bound together in the love which Christ brought down, are “forever shedding that love abroad” in their own lives and “manifesting in the grace of Christlike character the reconciling purpose of God. From Lesslie Newbigin:…

The 2d spiritual law of the classic Four Spiritual Laws is this: Man is sinful and separated from God. Therefore, he cannot know and experience God’s love and plan for his life. Here the law appeals to Romans 3:23 for “sinful” and to Romans 6:23 for the “separated” (=spiritual death). The italicized explanation at the…

Here is the First Spiritual Law of Bill Bright’s famous Four Spiritual Laws tract, just in case you haven’t used it or heard it: Just as there are physical laws that govern the physical universe, so are there spiritual laws which govern your relationship with God. Law One: God LOVES you, and offers a wonderful…

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