by Chris Walters | Jan 12, 2014 | Bible, Sermons, Theology
Every good story has to have conflict, otherwise it’s not a story. I remember many years ago when I was a student at Columbia College Chicago studying fiction writing, we sat in semi-circles in four-hour class sessions practicing all sorts of visualization and...
by Chris Walters | Nov 15, 2012 | Bible, Methodism, Theology
The following comes from one of my recent email conversations generated by my correspondent’s question, “What happens to our body and soul after we die?” Me: How deep do you want to go? Your questions lead into a quagmire of thousands of years of...
by Chris Walters | May 25, 2011 | Bible, Pop Culture
In response to Claude Mariottini’s post “Left Behind,” I releftecd a bit: What infuriates me most about Camping and the ridiculous media attention devoted to his crackpot theories is that the Bible as the “Word of God” has failed again in the eyes of...
by Chris Walters | Dec 6, 2010 | Art, Sermons
This morning we heard one of the most famous passages in the Bible, Isaiah chapter 11, a passage often called the “Peaceable Kingdom.” In this passage the prophet envisions a peaceful, harmonious world where animals that are normally predator and prey lay down with...
by Chris Walters | Feb 2, 2006 | Bible, Satire
I had an interesting dialog today, if I can call it that, with a person on the message boards of a well-known web portal (can I be more safe in not disclosing the details?). Stemming from a story about muslim outrage over cartoon depictions of the prophet Muhammad,...