We all, religious or not, to some extent mix together these ways of thinking and acting - love, as against domination. They express whatever faith - or nonfaith - we have. But they are probably opposites.
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If You Do Not Love Your Neighbor Whom You CAN See – Can You Love God?
The author of “1 John” makes a simple, blunt, very logical analysis of our emotional attachments – or professed attachments. (1 John 4:20) If you do not love your brother whom you...
6 Truths for Trump Years – Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
A black man in prison in a racist southern city in 1963 was a man whose life was in danger. Sadly, a black man anywhere in the US today is a man whose life is in danger. But while in that dangerous...
Evangelicalism is Broken. Do They Know? Do They Care? (review of Labberton’s “Still Evangelical?”)
Many of them see no crisis, judging from 5 of the 12 articles in Mark Labbertons’s recent valuable book Still Evangelical? (pub’d Jan 2018). If you are concerned about these issues – if you...
German Christians Sold Out to Power and Glory
[A Review of Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, by Charles Marsh, 2014] This book is not written to coddle nor to discomfort whatever our self-image is as American Christians today; Marsh...
Turn the Other Cheek MEANS Resist Them Non-Violently
I. THE PROBLEM: Jesus says to turn the other cheek. [See a summary of this post.] Is it ever appropriate for Christians to resist authority? Many of us feel there is much in the behavior of our...
Jesus and Racism – Samaritan Lives Matter – Black Lives Matter
Samaritans in Jesus’ day were both religiously and racially despised. The phrase “Samaritan lives matter” would have been very offensive to the Jewish culture in which Jesus was...