by Rich Hansen | Nov 8, 2018 | Provocative Questions
How can our communities and nation build unity out of remarkable diversity, while still allowing diversity to flourish? There is no greater question or challenge in America today. For those of us who turn to the Bible for guidance, we have a well-documented model...
by Rich Hansen | Nov 2, 2018 | Worldview
Note to reader: I have spent far more time than usual on this article. It is also much longer than usual for me. Since the 2016 campaign, I have been baffled why so many evangelicals could help elect a man who speaks and behaves so contrary to the life and teaching...
by Rich Hansen | Oct 25, 2018 | Worldview
Eugene Peterson went home to his Lord this past Monday, October 22. I spent two weeks with Eugene at a retreat center in southern California in October 1989, where he taught “Spirituality and Ministry,” my first intensive course in my Doctor of Ministry program at...
by Rich Hansen | Oct 4, 2018 | Provocative Questions
It’s not often you get to walk where a Roman Emperor walked, eat where he ate, even pray where he prayed. My wife and I recently did all this and more. Diocletian (244-311) was Emperor from 284-305, one of the few Emperors who did not die (or was assassinated) in...
by Rich Hansen | Sep 20, 2018 | Worldview
C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity describes the difference between bios and zoe, the two Greek words used in the New Testament for “life”: “The Biological sort which comes to us through Nature, and which (like everything else in Nature) is always tending to rundown and...