What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
04233 – A Sad Mistake
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04230 – Drawing Boundaries
Jesus doesn't save us from a monstrous God who damns people to hell for coloring outside the lines. Jesus saves us from being monsters who draw normative lines that make life hell for others. The lines that matter are the boundaries required by human dignity. Those...
04221 – Journey vs. Arrival
God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.--------------------------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: God never said that the journey would be easy, but God did say that the arrival would be...
04216 – The Body of Christ
... whether they come from the Muslim world, or the Buddhist world, or the Christian world or the non-believing world, they are members of the Body of Christ because they’ve been called by God. They may not even know the name of Jesus but they know in their hearts...
04214 – Dear Christian…
Dear Christian, God doesn’t need your defense. Jesus doesn’t need your defense. Christianity doesn’t need your defense. The Bible doesn’t need your defense. The Ten Commandments don’t need your defense. The poor, the powerless, the marginalized, the vulnerable, and...
04212 – Of Lesser Value?
According to the gospels, Jesus wasn’t married. Jesus didn’t have children. People have still allowed him to lead their entire lives. The same is true for the apostle Paul and countless others in the Christian tradition. Should Joan of Arc have her sainthood revoked...
04205 – Using God for Power
When a politician claims that God is on their side they are just using God to try to get you on their side. It is simply taking God's name in vain for the sake of their own pursuit of power. Turning any politician into some messiah-like figure for Christianity is...
04204 – No Need to Cry Out
...there's an immediate relationship between God, oppression, liberation: God is in the poor who cry out. And God is the one who listens to the cry and liberates, so that the poor no longer need to cry out.
04203 – In God’s Name
To set God’s name to politics does not turn the scales any more than to say ‘now in God’s name I am going out to steal’, or – ‘in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, I shall go hang myself. What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day...
04201 – My Greatest Concern…
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side,for God is always right.