Short answer: Because they are my people and they are more liberal than they know, and it’s causing people to walk away.
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Surrender to Love is Dangerous
Jesus breaks the “in group” bias of forgiveness for those like us and the “out group” fault-finding of those others. In the presence of an enemy, will we… • Attack, or attune?• Escalate, or empathize?• War, or reconcile? It is clear how God responded… “While we enemies, we were reconciled to God through the […]
Thinking the truth of sexual abuse would be a distraction means we don’t know the gospel of the crucified and risen Lord, and that we have a disembodied faith. The disembodied faith of SBC leadership causes 3 tragic results… • The debasement of bodies (primarily of women and minorities)• The distortion of truth (as a […]
Jesus tells—commands us—not to worry. But this isn’t about attacking our emotions. But attaching to God. This command isn’t about changing how we feel. It’s about changing our perspective. This command isn’t about denying our emotions. It’s about shifting how we see and what we seek. This shift comes from looking down, up, and around. Read Luke […]
Does the bodily resurrection of Jesus matter for Christianity? Is a physical resurrection of the believers part of faith? It’s what we’ve been talking about this week. Many now say, “No. A physical resurrection is immaterial to the truth of Easter and the power of Christianity.” Marcus Borg is a good example. Here is what […]
Interesting that Faith, Hope, Grace, and Charity are women’s names, not men’s names (at least in English speaking West). Does this point to the feminization of the church in the West? Perhaps. But I doubt it. (picture credit: Faith, Hope and Charity, by James Christensen) Maybe the Work of God is Always A Critique of […]
What is divinity? What does it mean to be divine? Is there a pyramid-scale of divine status? In other words, is divinity like a high school cafeteria with all the cools seniors at one end and the dorky freshmen at the other? Today I’m continuing the video series on “Why Bart Ehrman is Cheating” in […]
Would human rights emerge from a civilization-scale Bible Belt? Does the Bible Belt represent the historic sweep of Christianity? The answer is: No, on all accounts. The Bible Belt would NOT BE a very nurturing cradle in which to raise human rights. In fact, they would probably die of neglect—or something worse. But tragically, most […]