A Dear Ray letter on disagreement within the body: allowing the cross to touch our need to win so that Christ’s life can find expression.
Category Archives: Dear Ray
The Table Before the Meeting
Memories of Santa Barbara and Isla Vista, and a call for meals and ordinary fellowship to express the shared life already ours in Christ.
The Cross Reaches the Critic, Too
Seeing religion’s failures does not free the critic from pride. A letter on the cross reaching our need to be right so that Christ may be expressed.
Money Without a Religious Empire
Generosity without buildings, platforms, or institutional ambition: a letter on Zoe expressed through practical care, freedom, and honest stewardship.
When You Feel Nothing
Christ remains our life when spiritual feelings fade. A Dear Ray letter on dryness, weakness, and abiding within the union already ours.
Can We Let a Gathering End?
A meeting can end without ending our union in Christ. A letter on releasing religious arrangements while continuing to receive and care for one another.
Dear Ray: Cross the River and Gain Christ
Dear Ray, God’s entire purpose for us is to impart His own life—Zoe—into our being and transform us into the image of His Son. This calling overturns everything we naturally consider important. Christ is not the most important addition to our lives. He is our life. He does not take first place while everything elseContinueContinue reading “Dear Ray: Cross the River and Gain Christ”
What Life Is Supplying Our Defense of Life?
A letter on abortion, vulnerable lives, and the life supplying our response. Will we allow Zoe to become our actual living through listening, practical care, and love that remains when persuasion fails?
What Kind of God Are We Claiming to Represent?
A letter examining claims of Christian politics in the light of Jesus Christ—and asking whether Zoe reaches our loyalties, our use of power, and our care for vulnerable people.
Zoe Has No Political Allegiance
A letter on political allegiance, the confusion of party identity with Christian faithfulness, and Christ as the sole source of our shared life.
