Simpering, superficial piety is often a stumbling block to true religion. So let’s cast it aside for the moment and talk about hate – not other people’s, but our own. And I don’t mean in a “hate is bad” sort… Read More ›
Spiritual Formation
Easter: Hope for Those Struggling in the Shadow of Crucifixion
There’s a beech tree in my neighbor’s yard that holds onto most of its dead leaves all winter long. I walked over to it a couple of months ago out of curiosity and tugged on a few of the dead… Read More ›
You Live, I Live, We All Live in Bubbles
I love this image because one of the Internet’s favorite ways of insulting people is through some version of “You live in a bubble.” The obvious insinuation is, Your world is small; therefore your thoughts and ideas are small (unlike… Read More ›
Escaping the Fake News Machinery
I saw this tweet this morning and thought, “This is why citing articles to prove a point has little effect on anyone who’s not already convinced of the point we’re trying to make.” I scan through my social media feeds… Read More ›
Lament: An Act of Worship or An Indecent Display?
Out of the 150 Psalms in the Old Testament, 68 are psalms of lament. In fact, there are more psalms of lament than of any other genre, including thanksgiving, hymnic, liturgical, and community. And yet, in (upper)middle-class, dominant-culture churches in… Read More ›
Discipleship: Aiming For the Heart
Judy Wu Dominick – Discipleship- Aiming for the heart from Cru Inner City on Vimeo. I had the opportunity this week to speak at the Creating Options Together 2016 Conference for Cru Inner City in St. Paul, Minnesota. I discussed… Read More ›
Mourning the Departed Among Us
When you hear a person talk about “losing someone,” death is likely the first thing that comes to mind. There are, however, significant ways of “losing” a loved one to something other than death – something that feels an awful lot like a death, but the… Read More ›
Why the Affluent Need the Poor
It seems intuitive that the poor need the affluent, but it’s less intuitive to consider that the affluent need the poor. It’s my conviction, however, that although the poor cannot thrive physically without the aid and resources of the affluent, the affluent cannot thrive… Read More ›
We Are Robert Lewis Dear: How This Terrorist Exposes Who We Are
Violence may select her targets surgically, but she is far less precise in the way she inflicts casualties. In the case of the Planned Parenthood shootings in Colorado last Friday, she took aim at abortion but ended up taking the… Read More ›
Fear, Faith, and Nationalism in the Era of Terrorism – Part 2
In my last post, I made a case for the impossibility of holding dual citizenship in both the kingdom of God and any earthly empire. We must choose which one we will identify with fully. In this post, I want to unpack that… Read More ›
Life Reconsidered - Judy Wu Dominick 