This Christian Life

To Pimp A Butterfly: A Conversation Overheard

[Editor’s Note: This article is a collaboration between Colten Barnaby and Robert Redmond.] The current climate of hip-hop often leaves me feeling disappointed. Don’t get me wrong– I can get down to the latest Travis Scott and Bobby Shmurda bangers, but it seems that most popular rap artists often regurgitate …

Reflections on a Spirit-Inspired Vision of Social Transformation

I have read and re-read Daniela Augustine’s book “Pentecost, Hospitality, and Transfiguration: Toward a Spirit-Inspired Vision of Social Transformation”. Haunted by this fabulous text I have decided to write a brief note on some of my reflections. I encourage you to buy this book and engage with it. When …

People of Philly: ‘I’m Tired Of This’

What McGhee hopes for is good public schools for her kids, and, someday, a food truck selling her homemade soul food. “I wanna be an entrepreneur,” she says. “I’m tired of this.”

Reflections on D’souza’s America

I went to see Dinesh D’Souza’s “America.” A lot of the film seemed to be focused on political propaganda gearing up for the next election. For instance, a scene where a teenage Hilary Clinton meets with Salinsky in what appears to be her high school cafeteria, LOL. No time is …

Text Message Theology

I recently received a text from a friend who asked, “WHAT IS THE MEANING AND FUNCTION OF THE SACRAMENTS OF BAPTISM AND COMMUNION?” So I texted him a reply. In a world where pithy twitter theology reigns supreme my texting theology might not be any better. It did, however, require …

The First Year

I would love to pretend that I have gained the wisdom in my first year of marriage to blow you all away with what I have to share. I’d love to write that post with a shockingly misleading title that gets picked up and published by some trendy Christian mag. …

Spittin Fire: Prophetic Hip-Hop

This post started as an introduction to the post that will follow. This post was originally meant to be an exposition of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s song “The Message.” However, the introduction grew too long. When reading this post read it with that in mind, knowing that another …

Created In His Image But Not His Likeness

The Christian story tells us that man was made different form the rest of creation. Humans are made in the image of God. Then God said, “Let us make man in Our image, after Our Likeness”…So God created man in His own image; in the image of God he created …

One of the Most Beautiful Descriptions of Christian Life Possible.

The Following text is an Excerpt from the Epistle to Diognetus. It is a very mysterious letter, neither it’s authorship or date of authorship are known. It was probably written by someone in the 2nd or 3rd century. The letter is addressed to a Greek named Diognetus who is inquiring …

Stewarding Your Cyber Influence

Most of us are guilty of posting incendiary comments or links on Facebook. Here’s the thing, Facebook and Twitter are awesome platforms to share ideas, passions, and even to have lively conversation/debate about the things that are important to you. BUT There is a difference between: 1. constructive conversation/debate with …

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