The Year of Jubilee
Several years ago, I attended a conference where I heard a message on Luke 4:14-30 which deeply unsettled me. In a conference that was intended to motivate its audience toward evangelism, this…
Ben is a husband to Neva and father to four children, Felix (2018), Kaius (2020), and twins Jubilee and Jethro (2023). Ben is the church planting pastor of Redeemer for the Near Westside, a ministry seeking to see a new church planted through the proclamation and demonstration of Christ’s Kingdom.
Several years ago, I attended a conference where I heard a message on Luke 4:14-30 which deeply unsettled me. In a conference that was intended to motivate its audience toward evangelism, this…
In his influential book A Theology of Liberation, theologian and Dominican Priest Gustavo Gutiérrez described a kind of deconstruction happening among the mid-twentieth century youth in Latin America. Much of what he…
Bitterness and cynicism are my strongest spiritual gifts. Or so I used to think, anyways. Before I became a Christian, bitterness was something of a hobby of mine. My early Christian faith…