NOTE: This article was originally posted here.
I sat up the other night and watched the preview for Google Wave. Like many people, I’m looking forward to trying it out. But as I watched, it dawned on me that the biggest attraction is it’s convenience. We love convenience. Convenience can be a good thing. But there [...]

Written by James Pearson
Inspired by Matthew 23:23
You parse ancient scriptures with mathematical meticulousness; but you neglect to practice the Greatest Commandments, which Jesus said sum up the entire Law and Prophets: Love God with all that you are, and love your neighbor as yourself.
You should have committed yourselves wholly to the latter without neglecting the [...]

Join James Carroll, award-winning author of the bestselling Constantine’s Sword–also made into a documentary film–as he presents a free lecture entitled “The Story of American Belief: Catholics, Protestants, and Jews,” based on his new book, Practicing Catholic.

Practicing Catholic looks at America’s impact on the world’s most influential church. The author’s unique position within American Catholicism–he [...]

NOTE: Real Politics, Part 2 is the second of two articles by Jason Coker of Twoshirts.org. Real Poltics, Part 1 can be read here.
At it’s heart, politics is not about government or even leadership. When Socrates (through Plato) spoke of the polis, he referred to a community of people who “gathered together many associates and [...]

I have a confession to make: American Presidential politics have become my favorite spectator sport lately. It’s amazing, really – the subtle innuendos and the outright assaults. For pure brutal entertainment, the UFC has nothing on American politics.
Then there are the promises.
Depending on who you believe the next POTUS will either repair the greatest collapse [...]

As I stated over on my personal blog, I was in Philadelphia this last weekend for the Submergent Next Steps Meeting. Eliacin, of the Mustard Seed House in Seattle, has already provided a blow-by-blow of the whole weekend. So, there’s no sense in repeating what he has already provided. I did write an article for [...]

The latest issue of Subversive is now out. Go here and here to find out more details on getting your own copy and distributing in your area.

“Take up your cross and follow me”. The words of Jesus are altogether fully recognizable to us, but how often do we put into practice the teachings we claim to live by? Are we prepared to literally follow as disciples of Jesus by giving up ourselves in subordination to the greater power of God, found [...]

I have always been a firm believer in voting, until this belief was recently questioned as I read Tolstoy’s The Kingdom of God is Within You. As a student and teacher of history, I am well aware of the sacrifices that have been made for my right to vote. People of every ethnicity and gender [...]

Jesus on the cross humbles me. The physical pain he endured along with God’s abandonment of him in that brief moment (“My God, why have you forsaken me?”) compels me to reflect on how my sins have been crucified on that cross with him so that I can be forgiven, so that I can be [...]