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“If suffering is the sole origin of consciousness, and the beginning of true spirituality, God can much more easily make a saint out of a sinner…through suffering.” (Dostoevsky). In the parable of the good and bad trees Jesus states that: “every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and burned.” (Mat.Continue reading “Saints and Sinners”

“This Gospel shall be preached to every nation, kindred, people, and in every tongue, and then the end will come.” (Mat. 24:14 / Rev. 7:9) While an extraordinary amount of financial and human capital has been invested in the harvest of indigenous mission-fields around the world, it has often come at the cost of aContinue reading “Indigenous Missions”

“For He has appointed us able ministers of a New Covenant, not of written laws, but of the Spirit. For the letter of the law killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.” (2 Cor. 3:6) For those within the American Christian community who still have a problem with correlations made between Christianity and Indigenous spiritual traditions,Continue reading “Form, Without Function.”

“Water for the people!“– It is not the polluted “pool of religion” that can quench the thirst of those wandering in the desert, but only the “living water” that springs forth from solid rock. As the environmental and political climate becomes increasingly heated, desertification becomes an apt term that is not only descriptive of theContinue reading “Wahee Pahee!”

There is no way to avoid the topic of politics when it comes to religion; although its original impetus is liberation, its eventual trajectory tends towards empowerment and human subjugation. “You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within religious orthodoxy, as it’s struggle for power permeates the training, education, and discipline of the orthodox community.Continue reading “Political Theology”

“Liter and half-liter, that’s all we serve”The English pint, a rare preserve.A toast to history, our struggle and steely nerveOne final comeuppance to our patriotic verveTo King and country, a final cheerRaise your bloody quaffs I say, and with a hearty hear, hear!Where then this “message from a hundred years If we could but readContinue reading “Requiem”

“While a democracy seeks equality in liberty, it cannot be established without morality, nor can morality be established except through faith.” (de Tocqueville: Democracy in America, 1835) The founding documents of this nation, whose inspiration and subsequent penning became a beacon of hope for the entire world, have now become archaic to a vast majority.Continue reading “Freedom’s Flame”

“If they had been thinking of the land they left behind, they would have had reason to return, but as it was they desired a better country, a more heavenly one,”…a place with foundations, whose architect and builder was God.” (Heb. 11:10, 15-16) For those among you that call America home, having fled persecution inContinue reading “Sacred Ground”

“For the time has come…that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to those that fear thy name, to destroy those that destroy the earth” (Rev. 11:18). America is of a different genesis than that of other nations. Not only did its origins and “original intent” as aContinue reading “American Genesis”

“To proclaim liberty to the captive, the opening of the prison to those who are bound, and freedom to all those who are oppressed.” (Is. 61:1) While a great many correlations can be drawn between the Indigenous societies of The New World and the development of The United States of America, it is through itsContinue reading “A Warrior Nation”