Micah Tillman

Yesterday’s sermon was on the Kingdom of God/Heaven. Which was almost guaranteed to be interesting, since I get the feeling that our church members are primarily progressive and pacifist. (The non-pacifist, non-progressive part of me grins. Wait, that would be all of me. Or almost all?)
But after expressing his (I think legitimate) concerns over the [...]

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Once upon a time, someone wrote an article called, “Jesus Wasn’t Crazy: How to Bless Those Who Curse.” In it he wrote:
When you read John (e.g., 1.50-51, 6.48-58) you start to think maybe Jesus is crazy.
Well, today he was reading Matthew. Not all of Matthew. Just some of it. Part of what he read [...]

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Below the fold, you’ll find the text of my address for Mt. Sophia Academy’s commencement ceremonies.
If you were there, you may notice that some of the jokes are missing. Sorry. One sometimes does a little ad lib-ing (libbing) when one actually delivers a speech . . . . (And then, sometimes, one has things one [...]

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Darren at Precipice Magazine was kind enough to ask if they could reprint my article, “Jesus Isn’t Crazy: How to Bless Those Who Curse.” So I sent him the original version (Catapult’s editors had made some changes to the version they posted).
You can read it here.

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On Friday, Michael Gerson, a former Bush administration person, wrote an article entitled, “The Libertarian Jesus” for the Washington Post. It is, strangely, a defense of compassionate conservatism.
I say “strangely,” because no one believes in compassionate conservatism anymore. (I love making general statements like that.) Except Mike Huckabee, and you know what I think about [...]

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I’ve got a new article up over at Catapult Magazine. You can read it here.
It appears the last sentence of the article has been edited. *grin* It was shorter in my version. It ended with “turned.” The editorial process is fascinating.
I just stumbled across Catapult recently, and they seem very interesting. They’re part of a [...]

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Current national democracies (in America, Britain, Iraq, etc.) depend on the concept of “representation.” To represent is to re-present, to make present (again).
We use the same word of pictures and attorneys.
A picture presents how a person is/was/looks/looked. It makes a person present (again) by embodying his/her appearance.
An attorney acts or speaks for a person. [...]

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I was talking to Scott this evening (he drove down for a visit), and said something that reminded me of Jim Wallis.
Progressive Christians (the kind you don’t hear about in the media) love Jim Wallis. His publication/group/site is Sojourners (sojo.net). His book is God’s Politics.
What I said to Scott was (or rather, should have been, [...]

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60 Minutes is outing a guy they say was a source of faulty intel about Iraq’s biological weapons program. He wasn’t an expert at all, they say. (Remind you of that other time 60 Minutes was doing a story with/about purported fakery? The two aren’t connected, of course, I just think it’s ironic.)
And did you [...]

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