Faith Seeking Understanding | Rethinking Atonement

Faith Seeking Understanding | Rethinking Atonement

There was no “Damascus Road” experience. My understanding of Jesus’ death was challenged – and, ultimately, changed – slowly, gradually, haltingly. Encountering the work of René Girard – and others who built upon and adapted his interpretation of Jesus’ death through...
‘My God, They Killed Him’

‘My God, They Killed Him’

An insight picked up somewhere many years ago has stayed with me — especially when considering the cruel cross of Jesus which looms on the horizon of our spiritual journey. Societies seek to oppose and eliminate that which is considered below the acceptable standards...
What It Takes to Reform Broken Prison System

What It Takes to Reform Broken Prison System

We can’t keep doing the same things over and over while crossing our fingers hoping for a different outcome. A chapel speaker during my high school years put it this way, “If we always do what we’ve always done, we’ll always get what we’ve always got.” This insight...
New Nurturing Faith Books Explore Atonement, Yoga

New Nurturing Faith Books Explore Atonement, Yoga

Abba, Father by Leroy Spinks and Namaste, Newbie! by Jim Dant are the latest releases from Nurturing Faith books, the publishing imprint of Good Faith Media. Thinkers from the second century onward have been obsessed with formulating a theory of the atonement,...