“I like this place,” Jimmy M. said as we drove back to Daystar on the uneven, craggy pavement from Little Amps. “I feel like it’s a place I can grow, plant some roots, and change my life. It’s different from Bloomsburg.” “How so?” I asked. “Something about that place. It’s where I learned to shoot ...Read More

Dietrich Bonhoeffer once said, “We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.” What we often see in our communities is the first part of that quote: the bandaging of wounds beneath the wheel. We see treatments of the ...Read More

William Paul Young, the author of The Shack, was at the Best Western in Harrisburg in early March of this year. Our friends, Tom Kaden and Mike Gingerich, invited us to attend their banquet sponsored by their ministry, Someone To Tell It To. I was impressed by the message Young spoke that evening. He said, ...Read More

In the first part of this series, we talked through the shift in thinking many in the church have had as it relates to political affiliation and effectiveness. Here’s what I saw/see: many are choosing to replace the church and Christianity with a religious commitment tied to their Nation. In other words, what we have ...Read More

Charlie Hebdo and the massacre of 12 satirical cartoonists, 2 police officers, and 3 Jewish shoppers rightfully brought the world to Paris. It was more than a terroristic threat; it is a threat to a way of life. I am not of the opinion that our way of life should be maintained without revision. There ...Read More

“Migrations of the Holy” is a term coined by British Historian John Bossy, and used as the title of a book by William Cavanaugh. The book by Cavanaugh will be my “dialogue” partner as I reflect on God, Politics, and the meaning of the Church in the political sphere. For years it had been commonplace ...Read More