by Trey Ferguson | Oct 23, 2020 | Christianity, Reflections, Theology
The Good Samaritan is one of those stories that transcends the Christian tradition in some senses (which is a nice reminder that we don’t actually own these stories). It’s worth revisiting (or visiting for the first time) here. What the story illustrates...
by Trey Ferguson | Oct 16, 2020 | Christianity, Reflections, Theology
We hear the word “reconciliation” tossed around a fair amount these days. I think that’s a good thing. I’m one of those people who believes that the books collected in the Bible lay the foundations for God’s grand plan of cosmic...
by Trey Ferguson | Oct 9, 2020 | Christianity, Reflections, Theology
I confess. There are some things I hold in tension. A lot of them. One of those things that I continue to labor to understand is the idea of unity in the body of Christ, because I think it’s important. There’s no shortage of scriptures emphasizing the need...
by Trey Ferguson | Oct 2, 2020 | Christianity, Reflections, Theology
You are not reading the Bible from a place of neutrality. AND THAT’S OKAY! In fact, I’d argue that acknowledging that fact is the first step in being kinda good at reading the Bible. Here is an established, undeniable, incontrovertible fact: Christians...
by Trey Ferguson | Sep 25, 2020 | Christianity, Reflections, Theology
Anger is a fairly natural disposition for me. It doesn’t take a lot for me to get there. It comes easily. For the longest time, I was led to believe that anger was a sin. Human anger is a dangerous thing to play with, and can lead to pretty disastrous results....
by Trey Ferguson | Sep 18, 2020 | Christianity, Reflections
Had a couple tweets queued up about how some people who supposedly affirm a faith predicated on the declaration of a marginalized people are now holding up Donald J. Trump as some sort of champion & defender of said faith, but that might need to be a blog post...
