The Exile of the Church

The Exile of the Church

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the concept of exile as a way of understanding the challenge of church leadership today.  It’s a helpful way of thinking about the church’s place in the world right now, especially in Western culture.   What is exile? The truth is, most of us in the West are…

Is Equilibrium a Precursor to Death

Is Equilibrium a Precursor to Death?

Have you ever felt frustrated when circumstances changed?  Maybe it was vacation plans.  Maybe work plans.  Maybe family circumstance changed.  Whatever it was, you planned for things to be this way, but now they’re that way. When things don’t go as planned, that might put us in a state of what we might call disequilibrium. …