Category: Theology

This article is addressed to those who work for justice and see no results. It pursues the question of why Jesus does not set John the Baptizer free from captivity. My answer is that Jesus enters into captivity, too, in order to work from the inside out, breaking the very system itself that continuously imprisons people. This approach looks like weakness, but it is strength.

This article presents Luther‘s advice to those tempted to despair, especially by a bad conscience: Do not weigh your good and bad actions to determine your worth in God‘s eyes, but remember your baptism into Christ.

This article is related to my book ―I Am a Christian‖. It recounts the stories of two medieval nuns, one succumbing to the temptation to harm herself, and the other fighting such despair by confronting the devil with Christ. It gives the example of a modern Christian woman using the second nun‘s strategy to deal with the difficult emotions expressed in self-harm