Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
04295 – Wanna Change the World?
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03897 – Humility Is…
Humility is taking time to form an opinion in a reactionary world. Humility is being committed to discovering nuance and complexity even when everyone else is dealing in absolutes. Humility is refusing to reduce another person's humanity simply because you disagree...
03675 – Taking God’s Name in Vain
When you claim to be a Christian, you are claiming to reflect the very person of Jesus, publicly declaring that his Spirit abides within you. So when someone claims to be a Christian but commits acts of hate, violence, or oppression using their faith as a rationale,...
02933 – Beliefs and Injustices
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. from Questions sur les Miracles
02850 – God, Always Better…
I remain stubbornly committed to this notion: God will always be better than our ideas of God.
02843 – Washing Feet? Or Waging War?
I've been watching people with golden crosses around their necks and on their lapels shout at the TV about how serving gay and lesbian people is a violation of their “sincerely-held religious beliefs.” And I can't help but laugh at the sad irony of it. Two-thousand...
02742 – Religious Deconstruction
Martin Luther went through a process of religious deconstruction. The system he was deeply committed to began falling apart for him FROM THE INSIDE, and so he sought a better way--and not without criticism from those committed to defending the system. Deconstruction...
01822 – Definition of Sin?
Many people define sin as the sum total of acts which they themselves do not commit.
01501 – Claiming Jesus is God
Many otherwise honest and intellectual people will construct a neat bypass around the claim of Jesus to be God. Being people of insight and imagination, they know perfectly well that once to accept such a claim as fact would mean a readjustment of their own purposes...
01304 – The Way of Jesus Re-enacted by the Church
One reason that the world finds the New Testament's message of peacemaking and love of enemies incredible is that the church is so massively faithless. On the question of violence, the church is deeply compromised and committed to nationalism, violence, and idolatry....