Sticky Issues and Easter

Atonement/Christianity/Peace/Spirituality/Violence

Sticky Issues and Easter

Posted on April 5, 2007 by stephen t berg / 3 Comments

I’ve never set out to be controversial. I don’t think it’s in my nature. Not to say I haven’t tasted the desire to be…and have fol...

Beauty/Christianity/Spirituality

Holy Tuesday Batman!

Posted on April 3, 2007 by stephen t berg / 4 Comments

It’s Holy week. Holy Tuesday. For too many of us Christians however, what makes it holy is an unconscious assumption that other things aren’t holy. ...

Atonement/Christianity/Violence

April Fools and Palm Sunday

Posted on April 2, 2007 by stephen t berg / 3 Comments

There’s a certain symmetry about yesterday’s concurrence of Palm Sunday with April Fools. The conjunction offers heightened satire and spice. Jesus,...

Beauty/Christianity/Spirituality

Passion Hierarchy and Van Gogh

Posted on March 31, 2007 by stephen t berg / 2 Comments

Some time ago I heard a preacher say, "Our passion for God must be greater than all our other passions." And I got to wondering: No doubt, for a Chris...