If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
If your Christianity causes you to mock people with disabilities... If your Christianity causes you to mock the genuine expressions of emotion and love... If your Christianity causes you to mock men who cry... Your Christianity has nothing to do with Jesus.
It is not the task of the church to "Make America Great Again." The contemporary task of the church is to make Christianity countercultural again. And once we untether Jesus from the interests of empire, we begin to see just how countercultural and radical Jesus'...
When you mix Christianity with political power, it's like mixing ice cream with cow manure. It doesn't really hurt the manure, but it sure does ruin the ice cream.
The dominant religion on the planet is not Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Judaism but the pervasive faith in violence.
Christianity should sound like, "my beliefs cause me to see profound value in every single person," not "each person's value is measured by how closely they align with my personal beliefs."
It takes a great deal of arrogance to live in the U.S. with over 200 different sects of Christianity, all with their own unique theology, yet insist that only your sect has the moral authority to speak, not only for all Christians, but for all people in our country as...
What people don't realize is how much Christianity costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.
Christianity can be confusing, but the way of Jesus was pretty clear. Move toward the poorEmpower the womanCreate space at the tableThrow partiesWiden the family boundariesPoke holes in oppressive systemsDon't retaliate with violenceForgive your enemyDon't store up...
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.