A Review of Brennan Manning’s Memoir: All Is Grace
I first heard Brennan Manning speak twenty years ago at a college chapel. He bounced around the stage with a shock of white hair and the most God-awful Scotch-plaid sport coat ever blended in a mill, with polyester green pants to match. I remember his illustration of an old preacher who delivered a defining moment in his journey by telling him “Be who you IS, because if you ain’t who you IS, then you IS who you ain’t”… He looked like a guy who was ok...
Mockingbird Monday: A visit to the missionary tea – can compassion begin with confession?
Harper Lee’s harshest criticism of Christian church practice can be found in the missionary tea meeting in chapter 24 of To Kill a Mockingbird. It is the candid scene where the town women gather in the Finchhome to discuss the work of a missionary (J. Grimes Everett) and the recent events of the Robinson trial. The women in this living roompersonify the racism and bigotry they have adopted as part of their religious practice. It can be dangerous when people of faithtake...
