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I’ve been waiting for the right time to share this with CrossWalk. First, the message Diana Butler Bass brings to close out the Wild Goose Festival could not be better for a Sunday in March - Women’s History Month. Second, what she brings is so helpful for people trying to get their brains around the Bible, especially those who grew up in tradition…

Warning! The following story may be difficult if you have ever been the victim of a religious zealot who wanted to tell you how wrong you are about your faith – and how right they are. It may be challenging if you have ever experienced discrimination because of your gender. And it may be triggering if you have ever been shamed privately or publicly…

Today we will be blessed by three examples of feminine power as we launch into Women’s History Month. In the year 486 BCE, Xerxes, son of Darius the Great and grandson of Cyrus the Great became King of the Persian Empire. Susa, in present day Iran, was his home base. Three years after he became king – and after a successful military campaign dealin…

After Jesus’ baptism, we are told in Matthew’s Gospel that he went into the wilderness for 40 days. He fasted the whole time, which suggests that his time away was spent not for vacation but for spiritual clarity. He was famished, but was he any clearer on who he was going to be? Enter Satan, a prosecuting attorney type of character who, like the s…

Enjoy this interview with Katie Choy-Wong, author of Building Lasting Bridges: An Updated Handbook for Intercultural Ministry. Hosted by Stephen Corley. Get this free workbook with lots of exercises to help us all build lasting bridges!저자 Katie Choy-Wong

The poet declares at the beginning of the longest Psalm which celebrates walking in the Way of God (Psalm 119:1-3 NLT): Joyful are people of integrity, who follow the instructions of the Lord. Joyful are those who obey his laws and search for him with all their hearts. They do not compromise with evil, and they walk only in his paths. Sounds good. …

College freshman David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell A. Blair Jr., and Joseph McNeil sat down to share a cup of coffee and a doughnut together. It was February 1, 1960. The store was a Woolworth’s Store in Greensboro, North Carolina – sort of like a large CVS with a Buttercream Bakery alongside (for Napans too young to know what a Woolworth’s wa…

Can you remember the feeling the first time you came across a magnificent sight like the ocean, the mountains, Yosemite’s granite-walled valley, the Grand Canyon, Lake Tahoe, a redwood forest, or the night sky from high elevation at new moon? When we see such things, we feel awe. Sometimes we don’t really have words to describe what we’re seeing an…

Pam Gumns, Co-Founder of Free The Girls, a nonprofit organization that serves enslaved women toward their freedom, shares much information about this global issue and what we can do about it.저자 Pam Gumns

Convergence. Today provides and interesting convergence. The biblical texts that are being read today all over the world are about the declaration of Jesus as the Lamb of God who came to take away the sin of the world – and then called his disciples to come help him do it. The Old Testament passage refers to a passage where Isaiah feels discouraged…

Enjoy today’s journey through Dante’s hell…저자 Pete Shaw

Have you ever had a moment in your life when you were not at your best? Sometimes the moment lasts a day, sometimes a week, sometimes a season when, in retrospect (and sometimes in the moment) we feel like an alien took over our bodies or something, because the attitudes and behaviors we’re exhibiting really don’t reflect who we want to be, who we …

John’s Prologue (John 1:1-5 NLT) In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God. God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him. The Word gave life to everything that was created, and his life brought light to everyone. The light shines in …

As a nation we celebrate the birthdays of key historical figures in US history. It’s meant to honor their memory and rekindle ours. George Washington, of course, led the Revolution, and after serving his term as president, peacefully transferred power to the next president. Abraham Lincoln made the Emancipation Proclamation and led the US through C…

It is possible to be unhappy and have no joy. It is also possible to be happy and have no joy. But what a difference when you tap into and build your life on joy, which remains whether you are happy or not.저자 Pete Shaw

Sometimes what initially sounds so condemning and judging turns out to be quite redemptive.저자 Pete Shaw

When Jesus was born, his Jewish peers were distraught. Nobody alive at the time of his birth knew anything other than Roman occupation. A revolt of sorts in their past only led to greater tyranny. Yet, their origin stories reminded them of a time when they were enslaved in far faraway Egypt and God rescued them. Could God do it again after all thes…

What happened to the hero in this story that made him have a different response to the wounded victim than the religious leaders on the other side of the theological aisle? It's a parable - a made up story - so we only have our imagination to work with. If he was a human like me (and many others), the something that happened must have been an expre…

The God that Jesus experienced as Abba was incredibly, ridiculously generous. The Gospel of Luke shares three parables Jesus taught about how God feels about people who have lost their way, the lengths God goes to find them, and the joy when God does. The third and longest, the parable of the prodigal son (or father?), adds incredible color to Jesu…

저자 Pete Shaw

He told his next story to some who were complacently pleased with themselves over their moral performance and looked down their noses at the common people: "Two men went up to the Temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax man. The Pharisee posed and prayed like this: 'Oh, God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, crooks, adult…

In this talk, Pete gives an overview of many reasons why people are not just leaving churches, but the faith itself. He then shifts to a number of reasons why he chooses to stay using Brian McLaren's framework in is book, Do I Stay Christian?저자 Pete Shaw

I have heard stories of people who had to keep their voting preference to themselves for fear of retribution. If they lived in a particularly Republican area, to vote Democrat called into question their patriotism and their Christianity. Others, if they lived in a Democratic area and voted Republican, were chastised as being swayed by the extreme r…

This week, we take a break to hear from the author himself. Enjoy this interview from Compassionate Christianity.저자 Compassionate Christianity

Happy New Year! Sunday’s sunset, September 25 marks the new year on the Jewish calendar, the start of 5783. Happy New Year to our Jewish neighbors! I will never forget that night. It was Maundy Thursday, the night that the Christian tradition remembers the Last Supper where Jesus mandated foot washing and the continuation of eating the symbolic bre…

What happens if we embrace the notion of a violent God who hates and smites enemies, calls for the wholesale slaughter of people in the way of Israel as they come into the Promised Land, and even causes a global flood wiping out all but a handful of people and animals? The musical, South Pacific, tells the tale of dynamics at play during WWII on an…

Every September 11, our nation (and world) remembers the terrorist attack that leveled NYC’s World Trade Center Towers, damaged a portion of the Pentagon, and led to a downed plan that was headed for the White House. Thousands of innocent people died that day. Hundreds of thousands of people died as the United States went after the terrorists and t…

In my experience, hypocrisy is one of the leading reasons people give for why they aren’t interested in practicing religion. The people who seem to be the most devoted don’t actually practice what they preach, and statistically, religious people aren’t all that “better” than non-religious folk. On the one hand, the hypocrisy is certainly evidence. …

This week we are taking a look at Jesus’ mission which was founded on his experience of God that led him to address God as Abba – uncontrolling, unconditionally loving “Daddy”. For many Christians, the mission is simply tell people about Jesus’ death as atonement for sins so that we can get forgiven and eventually be welcomed in heaven. I believe t…

Synopsis: In this teaching we learn more about Jesus' favorite term for God - Daddy - and wonder why it hasn't stuck. There are historical and very human reasons why we are more familiar with Kingly God, a Judge-Holding-Court, and a an unmoved mover, which have also kept Jesus' term largely unpopular even now. Yet as Jesus followers, should we be f…

This interview was given as part of a service to allow Pete to talk about the impact of sabbatical on his life and ministry, but also afforded the opportunity for newcomers to hear his broader story. You can also watch this interview on CrossWalk’s YouTube channel.저자 Pete Shaw

In this teaching, we take a brief look at a post-Easter interaction between Jesus and the disciples, and then launch into unpacking two we manifest the life that belief affords. Jesus breathes on them, telling them to receive the Holy Spirit. A question: was there any less Holy Spirit in the room or in the disciples’ lungs before Jesus breathed on …

In this teaching the menfolk were still hiding out together, perhaps in the same room where they shared the Passover meal a few nights earlier. Their fear was justified – Jesus was falsely accused, put through an illegal trial, found guilty from biased jurors, and was tortured and executed. As his followers, they assumed they might be next. No judg…

저자 Pete Shaw

Note: You can view this teaching on our YouTube Channel. The scene (John 12:1-6) is a dinner party honoring Jesus. Lazarus is there, which is a pretty big deal since he was dead a few days or weeks before. Jesus was being honored for lots of reasons, but everybody present surely appreciated Lazarus’ presence given that Jesus was the one who called …

Note: You can view this teaching on our YouTube Channel. In Luke’s 15th chapter we are offered three related parables from Jesus, all well known, the last being one of the most loved of all his teaching. The context is familiar – the teachers of the Law were taking issue with Jesus’ teaching and company as he was mingling with tax collectors and si…

Note: You can view this teaching on our YouTube Channel. Our lectionary text this week offered the following account from Jesus’ remembered life: About this time Jesus was informed that Pilate had murdered some people from Galilee as they were offering sacrifices at the Temple. “Do you think those Galileans were worse sinners than all the other peo…

Note: You can view this teaching on our YouTube Channel. Some people believe God is angry and ready to kick our butts if we get out of line. Some people believe God is primarily known by love and is constantly working to help all of creation thrive in health, wellbeing, and harmony. Both of these images appear in the Bible. Jesus was clearly motiva…

Note: You can view this teaching on our YouTube Channel. The Transfiguration offered an abundance of fodder for Jesus’ disciples (then and now) to chew on. The experience was one of those thin place moments when the veil was lifted and all involved could see and experience the nearness of God. When people (including myself) have had thin place mome…

Note: You can view this teaching on our YouTube Channel. This week’s lectionary text (which I have switched to Matthew’s version of Jesus’ sermon) provides an excellent opportunity to remember some important issues whenever we read the Bible. First, it was not written by Americans living in 2022. We are 2,000 years and a world away from their conte…

Note: You can view this teaching on our YouTube Channel. Garrett Morgan saved lives. It is impossible to calculate just how many lives he saved – not just in his time, but even up until now. He will continue saving lives into the distant future, too. He invented the precursor to the modern stoplight that featured not just a red and green light for …

Note: You can view this teaching on our YouTube Channel. Today I begin a new series, Renewing Faith, where we will examine some key concepts that serve to form Christianity, determining which pieces are timeless and need to be honored and kept, as well as those parts that clearly need to be left in their historical context – appreciated to some ext…

Note: You can view this teaching on our YouTube Channel. Hear from the author of Open and Relational Theology talk on the central, key component of this theological perspective: love.저자 Pete Shaw and Tom Oord

Note: You can view this teaching on our YouTube Channel. Theology matters. What we believe manifests itself in what we do. If what we believe is off, what we end up doing will be off, too. Conventional Theology separates God from creation, quite literally, even if paradoxically. The creation poem found in the first chapter of Genesis has God creati…

Note: You can view this teaching on our YouTube Channel. We are in the middle of a series based on Tom Oord’s book, Open and Relational Theology. Today we are going to talk about God’s power and control, which will quite naturally take us to the subject of evil and suffering as well. Should be a fun time. But first, a brief recap. The first week we…

Note: You can view this teaching on our YouTube Channel. Last week we looked at the idea of God being open. While we have a lot of popular language that affirms the idea that God is unchanging, which we tend to equate with unshakable strength that can be relied upon, the idea comes with some problems. If God is unchanging, it means that the future …

Note: You can view this teaching on our YouTube Channel. Synopsis: Why does openness matter? If God is not open to an unknown future, then we have no true freedom as everything has been predetermined. We are stuck on a ride we didn’t choose and can never get off. People use phrases that are based in predestination to explain things, to bring comfor…

Note: You can view this teaching on our YouTube Channel. Monica was raped. Jimmy struggles with the threat of hell. Rochelle questions the relevance of prayer. Kyler and his husband, Gary, adopted baby girls and wonder what to teach them about God. Chad lost his wife, Jenny, to COVID-induced complications. I bet you really don’t need many more deta…

Note: You can watch this teaching on CrossWalk’s YouTube channel. We began this Advent series recognizing that we human beings struggle with a tension when it comes to our understanding of God. We resonate with paradigms, but with time discover that every construct/metaphor has its limits, and we move into mystery – this is the dance between the ka…

Note: You can watch this teaching on CrossWalk’s YouTube channel. Some problems take time to sort out, some issues take a while to resolve. If we are lifelong learners, we can be confident that as we come to grips with new information and as our perspective changes with maturity, we will forever be in process. The process seems to be one where we c…