George Mason: Front porches make us who we are
Let’s have more porch time this year. I know it’s January, and we’ll probably be huddled by fireplaces more than spread out on the…
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George Mason: 20 years of public theology in 20 quotes
Wilshire Baptist Church senior pastor George Mason writes monthly missives meant to provoke. He was a father of three teenagers when the Advocate worship…
Mason celebrates 20 years: Won’t you be his neighbor?
A couple celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary was asked the secret of marriage. She replied, “When he proposed, he got down on a knee,…
Schools shouldn’t be a commodity
School is back in session, along with all the promises and perils that go with it. The news last month rightly trumpeted the generosity…
Death by crocodile isn’t the only danger of baptism
A horrific crocodile death reminds the faithful to count the cost Who knew being a Baptist could be dangerous business? A pastor was conducting…
Eruptions are evident in Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and the angry middle class
Blowing our tops Unstable fissures in the earth, unaddressed fractures in the heart, and unattended factions within society are all of a kind. You…
Worship: What happens when religious holy days and secular holidays overlap?
Chocolates or ashes? Clergy like me like to gripe about how culture calendars usurp church calendars. We’ll have to be especially creative this year…
Worship: A new year is a chance to look for the good in the world
Make goodness great again January was named after the Latin word for door (ianua), which leads us to think of it as a time…
Worship: Churches, like nations, are unfinished projects
‘A more perfect union’ A year ago, the church I serve as pastor — Wilshire Baptist — took a historic vote to clarify that…
Worship: Give pause for a higher perspective this Thanksgiving
America’s spiritual secular holiday Astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth in March after setting the record for the longest continuous time spent in outer…
Worship: Internalizing religion is the complex legacy of Luther’s Reformation
A faith of my own Let’s pull back from the immediate this month and consider the long press of history. We are daily inundated…
Worship: Tortured by choice
Ironically, it’s the narrow gate that leads to abundant life In his book “Steal Like an Artist,” Austin Kleon makes the case for limitations….
