The Rev. Matthew Best serves as pastor of St. Stephen Lutheran Church in New Kingstown, PA. He resides in Carlisle, PA with his family and has a blog – www.pastormatthewbest.com – where he writes prayers, posts on theology and politics, and more.
Book Review: Fight Like Jesus: How Jesus Waged Peace Throughout Holy Week by Jason Porterfield
I read this book during Lent, which was the perfect time to read such a book. And let me just say – WOW! Great book. I highly recommend it. For our purposes here, I’m going to break down the review of the book in a manner similar to the structure of the book itself, which […]
The Church’s Faithful Responses to Conspiracy Theories – The Modern Gnosticism
October/November 2022: What Does It Mean To Be Church Now? (Volume 22 Issue 5)
[1] Over 20 years ago I worked on Capitol Hill for a Member of Congress. We would receive letters, phone calls, and emails about an assortment of issues. And we were required to send a response to every correspondence we received. Most of the time, those responses contained information or a constituent’s opinions about up-coming […]
Review: White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones
December 2021/January 2022: 2020-2021, A Retrospective (Volume 21 Issue 7)
[1] As a white male middle-aged pastor with a beautiful family and photogenic dog, I couldn’t possibly be more of the image of white privilege in the church. Which is why it was important for me to read White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity. [2] The book White Too Long […]