Bringing Down the Thunder

My friend and former professor Mike Broadway has an excellent and very thought-provoking reflection on Elijah's killing of the Baal prophets in 1 Kings.

Did God command the killing?

Does God command any killing?

What does Jesus' rejection of Elijah's violence in Luke 9 say about the way we are to live?

Read Mike's essay here:

http://mbway.blogspot.com/2011/10/elijah-in-cave-encouragement-or-maybe.html

Hope for Reconciliation

This is an incredible story of reconciliation down in Mississippi. It is the way to the world Jesus' still imagines.

http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/The_National/1242568525/ID=2169467616