The Southern Baptist Convention is wrong. Women are worthy of God's calling and find freedom in Jesus Christ. Women are created in the image of the boundless and limitless God.
03754 – Bearing the Image of God
Through Christ's incarnation, all of humanity regains the dignity of bearing the image of God. Whoever from now attacks the least of people attacks Christ, who took on human form and who in himself has restored the image of God for all who bear a human countenance....
03753 – Pentecost and Uncertainty
In the Season of Pentecost (Liturgical churches call it "Ordinary Time") -- God called Abram to leave his home to find a new one, and Jesus called Matthew, a tax-collector, to leave his job and “follow me.” In both testaments, we heard stories of moving from...
03751 – God Designed our Bodies
God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.
03750 – Blessed are the Peacemakers
Jesus said that peacemakers would be known as the children of God. Not the fear mongers. Not the authoritarians. Not the gatekeepers. Not those who see their religion as a war against the world. He said, “blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children...
03747 – Spirituality of Somebodiness
The raceless gospel proclaims an anti-oppressive ecclesiology and embodies a spirituality of somebodiness that calls out the heresy of white supremacy while calling all God's children into beloved community.
03739 – Source vs. Vessels
God may be the source of love, but people are often the vessels. from Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times
03735 – I Go in Pilgrimage
I go in pilgrimageAcross an old fenced boundaryTo wildness without ageWhere, in their long dominion,The trees have been left free.They call the soil here “Eden”; slants and steepsHard to stand straight uponEven without a burden.No more a perfect garden,There’s an...
03729 – God Likes…?
We don't even know if God likes the diatonic scale.
03727 – By Any Means Necessary?
Gentleness is a fruit of the Spirit. Meekness is a teaching of Jesus. Humility is the way God became human. Beware of any Christian movement that advocates otherwise, especially in the political sphere. It is simply trying to justify its own power by any means...