Essays &
Thoughts
The Problem
with the Church
The problem is not error. The problem is that we stopped growing. A major problem with the church is not sin induced by cultural influences, but its failure to continue growing in maturity — and if Christlikeness is acquired through an endless series of transformations, then there is nothing to go back to.
“The eighteen-year-old may believe the same things at forty, but he believes them differently — more completely, and with less perforated innocence.” From the essayRead the essay
If we acquire Christlikeness through an endless series of transformations, then there is nothing to go back to. Stasis itself is eventually destructive of the faith.
Greg Gorsuch · The Problem with the Church
In formation
02
Differentiated Unity
Acts 2 and the Trinity: why a community that cannot hold difference has not achieved unity, only uniformity.
Drafting
03
Beauty Will Save the World
Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, and indirect communication — on why Jesus so rarely spoke plainly.
Notes
04
Belonging Before Believing
What the order of the three B’s actually costs a church, and what it costs the people who never make it past the first one.
Drafting
05
Cruciform Metamorality
A theory of what makes Christ’s teaching metamoral, and why the shape of ethics, and of the universe, is a cross.
Proposed
Purpose of Common Ground
Common Ground exists to facilitate the transformation of our ability to relate; to one another, to ourselves, and to God.
“We are being transformed into the image of Christ, from one degree of glory to another.”
— 2 Corinthians 3:18