Will Willimon: Ayn Rand and Christmas

Will Willimon on Ayn Rand.  Excellent. Rand’s “Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged” repudiate family and community. Their major characters’ families and spouses are leeches whose communities are filled with sponges attempting to live off the powerful, brilliant few. And what about this,  that Rand abhors the very concept of God.  Whaaaa?   GOP?  Christian prsperity gospel fundies?  Athiest?  OH,  I see why Continue Reading

A Peculiar Prophet: Christmas in the Empire

Bishop Willimon , co-author with Stanley Hauerwas in Resident Aliens,  posts a great post: The angel did not say good news for some people. The angel was bold to say good news for all people…. Good news this day. There is born for you a savior. Our flags, government, armies, cannot save. Only that baby saves. One who is born Continue Reading

A Peculiar Prophet: On NOT Reaching Our Culture Through Our Preaching

Willimon gave a pretty clear explanation of the "cultural battle" we really face Sometimes in leaning over to speak to the modern world, I fear that we may have fallen in! When, in our sermons, we sought to use our sermons to build a bridge from the old world of the Bible to the new modern world, the traffic was Continue Reading