Topics
Spiritual Concerns
The case of the customized Christ
“If God created us in his image, we have more than reciprocated.” That’s what French philosopher Voltaire said of the human tendency to mould God into our own likeness.
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Experiments
At the cafe with Ruby
Jesus as a tattooed man in a in a cafe
Stages of development
In this article Donna-Jean Brown outlines her journey in the Christian faith, including the joy of discovering feminism, the frustration of losing traditional spiritual language and the comfort of a deep spiritual presence.
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Letter
Engage messed-up world, get messy
Privileged people end up center-stage far too often.
The Great Emergence
Geez magazine is proud to sponsor The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why, featuring keynote speaker Phyllis Tickle, on October 31, 2009.-
Experiments
Changing the story of change
As privileged people, we need to be willing to give up the spotlight and move ourselves out of the centre of the stories we are living in, lest we begin to think that the most important people in the story are ourselves.
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Editorial
Come on, a washable Bible?
I can think of at least four reasons why yet another re-packaging of the Bible is so overdoing it.
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Editorial
Black hand on the Bible
The world got goose bumps as Obama put his black hand on Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural Bible. Around the globe, billions of us breathed a collective sigh of relief.
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News
Prayerful, partisan, pulpiteer activism
“As a Christian, you cannot support Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.”
That statement, though you may disagree with it, is not a big shocker in the U.S. Such expressions of staunch evangelical-Republican allegiance are common. But it was those very words that launched a media flurry and legal kerfuffle around Gus Booth, a clean-cut, charismatic preacher man from rural northwestern Minnesota.
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Editorial
Confessions of a contemporary Christian colonialist
As a white American, I am the beneficiary of at least two monumental injustices. First, the land we live on was often taken from indigenous peoples by means of broken promises and military force. Second, African men, women and children were brutally enslaved in order to provide cheap labor for many of the new landholders. As a Christian, I feel the need to make right the reality that some inestimable, but not insignificant, portion of my resources are the legacy of these injustices.
