Often without realizing it, well-meaning Christians these days have a past they’re ashamed of. For the most part, they don’t think much about it because “old traditions” and “primitive theology” of bygone years couldn’t possibly be relevant to twenty-first century believers.

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I know, because I’ve thought that way myself. We’ve assumed that somewhere along the way, the early purity of Christian belief got corrupted—whether by paganism, Catholicism, politicization of the faith, or maybe just complacency. Power struggles happened. Good-hearted believers got side-tracked. Easy believism took over.

 

What I found exciting when I began to explore the realities of what happened in the distant Christian past is that few of my preconceived ideas were true—and re-thinking some assumptions ended up being way refreshing. To do it, I had to leap over centuries of writers, theologians, church politics, and ignorant histories to see what really happened in the early centuries of Christianity and suddenly grasp how relevant the ancient past is to our Faith today.

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The same is true of principles in work, government, and even family  life. So, my passion in sharing In Principle is to go back to the foundational ideas and reveal the disconnect between how things are and how they were meant to be.

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