Archive for April 15th, 2008

  • Political or Prophetic? | Posted by Mart De Haan on Apr 15 2008

    I grew up in the Midwest during the 1950s and got my introduction to the civil rights movement on a small black and white television set. But I don’t ever remember hearing a word in church about the plight of Southern African Americans.
    In my world, “conservative” churches stood for the gospel of Christ’s death [...]

  • Caesar and Christ | Posted by Mart De Haan on Apr 15 2008

    It’s tax day in Rome. Caesar slouches back in his chair and says to his advisors, “I don’t have much patience with these Christians. They’re so absorbed with their “phantom king” I’m not sure we can keep them under our thumb. Yeh, most of them pay their taxes, but only because “he” tells them to. [...]