I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.
04175 – Tears of Homelessness
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04097 – Contradicting Jesus?
Is it that hard to understand that if it benefits the rich and powerful while making life more difficult for the poor and vulnerable, it contradicts everything Jesus taught.
03910 – Biblical Justice: Restorative
When the average American hears the word "justice," I think very often--unless they have been taught otherwise--the first idea they have is punishment, and that's unfortunate. Biblical justice is always restorative. The point is never simply punitive; the point is to...
03893 – Disability Teaches Us
In this season of continued healing, I am soaking the powerful words of Julia Watts Belser deep into my own bones: “Disability has taught me much about the potent spiritual subversiveness of being radically comfortable in my own skin, of daring to find the presence of...
03554 – Have We Lost our Ability?
It may be that we have lost our ability to hold a blazing coal, to move unfettered through time, to walk on water, because we have been taught that such things have to be earned; we should deserve them; we must be qualified. We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid...
03214 – Teaching Boys and Girls
Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty; they should be made to feel that nothing gives one human being rights over another, and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.
03183 – Overplaying vs. Underplaying
Fundamentalist and evangelical biblicism taught believers to overplay the Bible and underplay extrabiblical ways of learning and knowing. from After Evangelicalism
03066 – An Evolving, Not Finished, Story
The Christian story did not drop from heaven fully written. It grew and developed year by year over a period of forty-two to seventy years. That is not what most Christians have been taught to think, but it is factual. Christianity has always been an evolving story....
02971 – A Right to Be Here
It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.
02864 – 12-Step Spirituality’s Transformative Power
Twelve-Step spirituality rediscovered the real transformative power that is the core of the Gospel. It is the spirituality of imperfection that Jesus taught, Paul clarified, Francis and Clare lived, and Thérèse of Lisieux brought to light for the modern world....