2025
Judaism: God’s Pathway to Race-Free Christianity
While serving at a church in Maryland, Julaine and I developed a close friendship with a couple, Nicole and Donnie Christianson. One day, Nicole made this casual but powerful statement to Julaine, saying that Christianity without Judaism just didn’t make sense to her. That simple comment redirected our entire theological journey from replacement theology to the realization that Judaism and Christianity are not rivals but siblings within the same Abrahamic inheritance of Hope.
2024
Politics, faith and mission: A conversation with Jimi Calhoun
Jimi Calhoun is full of stories about musicians with whom he’s performed, churches he’s served, and the human possibilities for which he hopes. As a bass player, he’s played across the globe with Dr. John, Parliament Funkadelic, Buddy Miles and Rare Earth, as well as playing his own music.
2024
Faith: Be the bridge of love toward the stranger
My first commercial recording contained lyrics that read, “Love is a thing that you need now; Love if you want to succeed now.”
Nice rhyme right? But how would you define love? How would you define success?