Most young adults I know aren't looking for a religion that answers all of their questions, but rather a community of faith in which they feel free to ask them.
02004 – Community of Faith Can Provide Freedom
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01879 – Released from Prison?
[Just before being released from prison...] As I stand before the door to my freedom, I realize that if I do not leave my pain, anger, and bitterness behind me, I will still be in prison.
01763 – What Does Our Framing Story Tell Us?
If it [our framing story] tells us that the purpose of life is for individuals or nations to accumulate an abundance of possessions and to experience the maximum amount of pleasure during the maximum number of minutes of our short lives, then we will have little...
01719 – Christian Artist vs. Prayer Meeting
We will pay money to go to church to hear a Christian Artist sing about God, but we won't go to church for free to meet with God in a prayer meeting.
01717 – To Be Free
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
01690 – To Forgive
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
01449 – Are We Making the World More Gracious?
The question is not whether we should mix Christianity and politics. To follow Jesus is to be political. The issue is whether our understanding of Christianity makes the world more gracious or less gracious. Do we work against injustice, oppression, greed, and...
01376 – Both Victim and Victimizer
The attempt to divide the world into tidy categories of oppressor and oppressed or victimizer and victim oversimplifies the more complex realities of histories and habits of sin and evil. While it is undeniably true that many people have suffered--and continue to...
01371 – Living Honestly with Our Dust
It is something we all have experience with--the dust of our lives. We miss the mark of God's best for us when we believe the illusion that our dustiness is only in part of us. Our lives are not...as shiny clean as we like to think they are. Our lives are not free of...
00052 – Friendship Does Not include Domination
Friendship is the reasonable passion for truly human fellowship; it is a mutual affection cemented by loyalty. The more people begin to live with one another as friends, the more privileges and claims to domination become superfluous. The more people trust one...