Theology

  • Civilizing & Christianizing

    Disciple’s theology trended toward a nationalistic identity from the beginning.  However, if we were to choose a defining moment when theology and nationalism became one, it would lie in the moment when Disciples voted to open a Boarding School on the… Continue reading

  • Gospel Nationalism

    Last week’s Center for Indigenous Ministries invitation to develop a Truth and Healing Council is a call to remember vocation and homeplace.  Done well, this work breaks the fetters of Indigenous and non-Indigenous historical trauma and moral injury.  Once free, we may… Continue reading

  • To Remember and Honor

    Tomorrow is Memorial Day.  As National Holidays go, you cannot argue against remembering those who died while serving in the United States Armed Services.  And we should not. However, if we are going to honor the dead due to military service, then for those… Continue reading

  • To Be Better Than We Are

    “It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.” Wendell Berry The canyon was tuff.  Sometime ago, long before my memory or that of my parents, a volcano erupted and spread ash across this… Continue reading