Sorting by

×
Skip to main content
All Posts By

Mitchell Kinsinger

Uncategorized

Behind the Rhetoric about America’s Past

JANUARY 2012: REVIEW by Mitchell Kinsinger WAS AMERICA FOUNDED AS A CHRISTIAN NATION? A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION JOHN FEA WESTMINSTER JOHN KNOX PRESS $30.00. 287 PAGES. Among the hot topics in contemporary politics that inspire "religious" devotion is the proper relationship between church and state, or more specifically, between religion and government. Sooner or later this discussion will wend its way back to the founding of our nation, where opinions will differ sharply as to whether the founders were, or intended…
Mitchell Kinsinger
October 30, 2014
Uncategorized

New Monastics in Politics

Shane Claiborne is the de facto leader of the "New Monasticism," a movement predominantly among young adults who have forsaken the trappings of middle-class comfort to move into poverty-stricken urban communities. There they seek to incarnate the Kingdom of God through work with the widow, the orphan, the alien, and the poor. Claiborne is a founding member of The Simple Way, a redemptive community located in inner-city Philadelphia. His co-author Chris Haw, a Villanova University graduate student in theology, is…
Mitchell Kinsinger
January 1, 2010
Uncategorized

Bruce, Belhar, and the Bible

Mitchell Kinsinger During my college years, I listened to Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn virtually nonstop. His Christianity seemed unconventional to me and his lyrics and music ministered to my soul. I had not thought about Cockburn for a while until I began preparation for teaching a Sunday School class on the Belhar Confession. In particular, I was reminded of his song, "Justice," which includes the refrain, Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else That line always troubled me…
Mitchell Kinsinger
May 1, 2008