It is important for [African American] women engaged in the process of self-recovery to examine the way in which harsh critique was used to ‘check’ and police our behavior so that we can examine the extent to which we relate similarly to others. … To heal our wounds,...
If America’s original sin is slavery, the original sin of the church is anti-Judaism and antisemitism. Before the New Testament was fully written. we see evidence of it... If you look at the passion accounts in the four Gospels in chronological order, you see Rome...
We grow not by memorizing principles but by hearing stories. We imagine ourselves in circumstances and ask how we would respond. We examine stories that have been handed down to us, such as those in the Bible, and ask how those stories play out in our lives. from...
Socrates famously declared that ‘the unexamined life is not worth living.’ It is one of the most quoted classical sayings outside the Bible, but it is followed less than it is quoted. And if Socrates is correct, it would mean that many people, even highly educated...