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...
The longer I’m a pastor, the more I believe that the road to heresy doesn’t begin with questioning God. The road to heresy begins with being unquestionably certain that no one knows God better than you do and believing that everyone else is a heretic but you.
For some Christians... The Bible is only authoritative when they interpret it. Freedom is only for everyone until they say it isn't. Oppression is only real when they feel it. Justice is only fair when it favors them. Capitalism is king until socialism profits them....
We Christians paint such a fragile picture of Jesus when we act as though his will is somehow threatened by every political and cultural shift. We Christians paint such a codependent picture of Jesus when we act as though he needs a political party, a president, and a...
It is a strong and secure Christianity that practices self control. It is a fragile and insecure Christianity that tries to control everyone else.
The spiritual stature of a person's life is measured by love, which in the end remains “the criterion for the definitive decision about a human life's worth or lack thereof”. Yet some believers think that it consists in the imposition of their own ideologies upon...
Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.