A Letter to Scout on Repentance and Forgiveness

A Letter to Scout on Repentance and Forgiveness

Dear Scout, I’ve been thinking about repentance and forgiveness. Often, when I think about these words, I think of them in terms of person-to-person and/or person-to-God.  If I do something that hurts another person, I say, “I’m sorry. How can I make amends? Will you...
The Advent of The Beloved Community

The Advent of The Beloved Community

In response to his critics, Clarence Jordan, founder of Koinonia Farms in southern Georgia, asked a simple question:  “What would it be like if Jesus were born into the world right smack dab in the middle of the Jim Crow South?” As a New Testament Greek scholar, he...