There are a few distinct Biblical philosophies that guide our work at South Street Ministries. (I imagine if I can ever convince Duane to write a book that these will be distinctive chapters). Ideas such as ‘faulty but not false,’ or ‘neighbors first.’ However, today I have been struck by Duane’s retelling of Dallas Willard’s [...]
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It was a bustling, seaport metropolis. Recent federal developments had put the city of Corinth on the map. Hebrew Hipsters, tent-making entrepreneurs, and up-and-coming civic officials flocked to this cosmopolitan city to make a name for themselves. One such urban adventurer was Paul (of Biblical fame), who quickly entered the city’s growing workforce with local, [...]
10 years ago I was a high school senior. I had visited a Christian college in Indiana and was convinced it was God’s will for me to go there. I was going to be a Youth Pastor. My mother coerced me to apply to the University of Akron as a back-up plan. 10 years ago [...]
We went to the same high school. (Garfield!) When I was a senior, he was a freshman. I asked if he knew my sisters, but he couldn’t recollect them. That doesn’t surprise me. I imagine we were on two very different tracks. I took honors courses in preparation for college, he wrestled with anger and [...]
HOMELESS ANYTHING WILL HELP GOD BLESS Excuse me sir, could you lend me $2.85 for a bus ride to Barberton? I got no way to get out there and I gotta pick up this check. I hate to ask, but could you loan me $10. I get paid this Friday, but I’m out of gas [...]
“We all have our devices, yours make you look terrible, mine make me look good.” My words as we discussed the Beatitudes at South Street’s Sunday fellowship. We were discussing the backwards nature of the Kingdom of God. As we entered into conversation, I knew the place of my own heart: distant and stale. A [...]
I really hope this post sees the light of day. I am in a season of incoming. There are lots of things (lots of stuff) that I am acquiring. Over the course of the next year, I will buy and furnish a house. I will receive many gifts from friends who love me dearly. I [...]
In less than two miles I was in two worlds. Tuesday started with my neighbors and I watching a house get destroyed. The house across from me, next door to my neighbors has been vacant since I moved onto Bachtel Ave. 2 years ago. My roommates and I joke that there are more rocks from [...]
I can remember talking about nonviolence and pacifism at a coffee shop. I remember the debate over the theoretical question, “what if someone broke in your house and threatened your family?” I was 20, single, and relatively safe. The notion of someone breaking into my not-yet real house and threatening my non-existing family wasn’t even [...]
God bless you. An interesting phrase for a sneeze. An even more interesting word and premise, blessed. Jesus doles out blessings quite interestingly, blessing the poor, the mourners, the persecuted, and the peacemakers in the Sermon on the Mount. But for us (at least for me) living in a wealthy nation, with a consistent paycheck, [...]
