Scott Hutcheson, a dear friend of mine who is a food writer and community development guy, has an absolutely brilliant piece today entitled Filling the Hungry With Good Things. It is a brilliant commentary on the Gospel of Luke's understanding of the impact of Christ's birth. Check it out.
Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.
Kind of like Jesus.
Bartchy, currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Religions at UCLA, notes a great gap between the original, early form of church in the first three hundred years of Christianity, and the modern concept of doing church today.
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Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.