The Gospel That Burrows Beneath
“Behold, I am making all things new.” —Revelation 21:5 The Gospel is not a tool of power or reaction, but the living root from which a new creation grows. It…
Each A Splintered Branch
Each A Splintered Branch by Donavon L Riley Even the fallen find their place; as the broken tree returns to the soil and feeds the earth, so Christ gathers the…
What Can And Will Be
What Can And Will Be by Donavon L Riley Christianity has too often bowed at the altars of power, offering its wild and untamed Gospel to the machinery of politics…
No Philosophy or Lofty Ideal
No Philosophy or Lofty Ideal by Donavon L Riley God, in a mystery beyond all reckoning, walked among us not as myth or metaphor but as flesh and blood. He…
Not By Our Own Strength
Not By Our Own Strength by Donavon L Riley It’s in our faltering, our stumbling into sin or grief, that God begins His strange work in us. He lets failure…
We Are Not Just Keeping A Tradition
We Are Not Just Keeping A Tradition by Donavon L Riley The false prophets are always near, lurking at the edges of the Church like wolves dressed as lambs, their…
A Cause Not Our Own
A Cause Not Our Own by Donavon L Riley Aldous Huxley once warned us: confession alone will not save us. The powers that move this world—those intelligent and practical masters—don’t…