The Love Off-Switch – Say “Abortion” and You Don’t Have to Love Your Neighbors!
“ABORTION!” Some people do abortions!That settles it. I literally can ignore my neighbor whom, as...
Read More“ABORTION!” Some people do abortions!That settles it. I literally can ignore my neighbor whom, as...
Read MoreMany of them see no crisis, judging from 5 of the 12 articles in Mark Labbertons’s recent valuable...
Read Moreby Larry | Feat1, New2, Religious Right, Repentance, Trump
I know of, and know personally, a LOT of white professing Christians for whom the emotional and...
Read Moreby Larry | Feat2, Manipulation - Lies - Fraud - Fear, Politics, Religious Right, Separation of Church & State, Trump
His professed Christian moral values are NOT the values he holds most dear. There’s...
Read MoreWe can see “First Church”, standing on the corner. And we call it “a church” or “my...
Read Moreby Larry | Bible Studies, FeatD, Religious Right
In this Scripture it’s NOT the foreigners and unbelievers who have to “turn”! WHO ARE WE TALKING...
Read Moreby Larry | Feat3, FeatD, Isaiah & Micah, Non-Violence - Courtesy, Religious Right, Separation of Church & State
“Declare to my people … their sins.” Jesus, Isaiah, the prophets, the apostles...
Read MoreUnhealthy, dangerous forms of “Christianity” seem epidemic today. Are there healthy forms?...
Read Moreby Larry | Politics, Religious Right
Here are short excerpts from articles from mainstream press sources shaming evangelicals...
Read MoreGod requires it of the prophet. He MUST speak out about what he sees going on. Shout it aloud, do...
Read Moreby Larry | Guns, Religious Right
“It’s not a gun problem; it’s a sin problem.” Certain Christians...
Read Moreby Larry | FeatC, Jesus Christ, Religious Right
Jesus was a highly respected teacher of morality and of the spiritual life. So, logically...
Read MoreHere’s another example of the misunderstanding and misuse of Scripture by the...
Read MoreThere is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself...
Read Moreby Larry | Favorites, FeatB, Jesus Christ, Progressive Christians, Relationship with Christ, God, Spirit, Spiritual Core of Activism
He said, “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord’ but do not do what I say?” Maybe...
Read MoreThese sayings may have a Biblical sound to them. But they are not Biblical. The Judge of the World...
Read MoreThese sayings may have a Biblical sound to them. But they are not Biblical. Setting aside...
Read MoreIt might be a good project for each of us – to try to summarize the Sermon on the Mount...
Read MoreIt’s about Christ – so it’s really a holiday (holy day) for any who love Christ. How could we...
Read MoreSeems to me there are obviously two primary modes for religious practice in this world. That...
Read MoreSadly, our votes and elections are, whatever our motives, putting lots of people in positions of...
Read MoreI. THE PROBLEM: Jesus says to turn the other cheek. [See a summary of this post.] Is it ever...
Read MoreContemplation and Public ActionThe public good is most in danger when the voluntary visits to...
Read Moreby Larry | Civil Rights - Minorities - Racism, Fascism - Nazism, FeatB, Religion - Good And Bad, Spiritual Core of Activism
[A Review of Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, by Charles Marsh, 2014] This book is...
Read More. . . switch sides from Caesar’s way to Jesus’ way – before it is too late.* – Brian McLaren “Caesar’s way” stands for secular, temporal government or authority. The usage derives from Jesus’ saying, when asked about...
Read More[See also: What if We Are Persecuted?!] No government can ever guarantee that you or I will have...
Read MoreThe prophet’s task is to “reorder” and “refashion” the urban environment to be more just and...
Read Moreby Larry | Prayer & Meditation, Progressive Christians, Spiritual Core of Activism, Spiritual Practice
I am very pleased with this book (“Occupy Spirituality”). It is a conversation...
Read MoreSome American Christians worry that we are being persecuted and that our freedom of religion is...
Read MoreFrankie Schaeffer grew up in modern, politically radical, Americanized “Christianity”....
Read MoreA friend recently asked what it means that I use “emergent evangelical” as my religious affiliation on FaceBook. So here’s a look at what the phrase means to me. I. “Evangelicals” Today...
Read Moreby Larry | Abortion, Religious Right
We can support policies that actually tend to reduce abortions in the short run. Or we can adopt a political strategy of taking over every branch of government with like-minded politicians so we can (try to) use the long arm of...
Read Moreby Larry | Abortion, Religious Right
Here’s my wife Connie’s response to a relative who thinks Obama loves to see babies die, and argues that almost all abortions are done for the convenience of the mother. We could rant about this for a long time, but I think...
Read Moreby Larry | Abortion, Catholics, Religious Right
Douglas W. Kmiec is a prominent Republican and committed Roman Catholic. He was head of the Office of Legal Counsel for Presidents Reagan and the first Bush. He became notorious for coming out in support of then-Senator...
Read MoreIn January of 2008 Barack Obama gave a powerful speech (sermon) on the meaning of Martin Luther King Jr. for America today. This was at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where King was raised and his father was the pastor....
Read Moreby Larry | Catholics, Fascism - Nazism, FeatOld, Prayer & Meditation, Separation of Church & State, Spiritual Core of Activism
For decades he resisted Nazi, then Communist, oppression. How did he cope?Connie and I recently...
Read MoreHere’s Obama on the significance of the Gospel: In an interview with Christianity Today magazine, Obama said this about his decision to accept Christ, What was intellectual and what was emotional joined, and the belief in...
Read Moreby Larry | Abortion, Politics, Religious Right
Did you see the recent comment from “Donna”? It stirred me up! Come on people! Christian integrity and humility should compel you to allow that those who voted for Obama are NOT thereby proven to be ignorant or...
Read Moreby Larry | Abortion, Local, Religious Right
The ideal number for me as a Catholic is zero … and there are plenty of people I’d be willing to work with if they want to get down to … that ideal number which is zero. Just below there’s a video clip (2...
Read Moreby Larry | Religious Right
I. Young Adult Attitudes Toward American Christianity In the aftermath of the Religious Right’s ascendancy, it is not an accident that “antihomosexual” is the number one perception of Christians in America, followed...
Read MoreScary Email I received an anonymous forwarded email the other day that combined a bit of good spiritual advice with a lot of classic Republico-Christian fear-mongering. Actually, it wasn’t totally anonymous. It was signed...
Read Moreby Larry | Religious Right
How does “the world” see us? Recently I wrote about David Kinnaman’s treatment of that in his book, unChristian, based on an extensive research project by The Barna Group. Remember, Kinnaman is writing from...
Read Moreby Larry | Religious Right
The Barna Group exists to provide statistical information to Christian churches and ministries, to be a catalyst in moral and spiritual transformation in the United States. We accomplish these outcomes by providing vision,...
Read Moreby Larry | Abortion, Politics, Religious Right
The Matthew 25 Network has a very helpful page for Christians who want to know the truth about Senator Barack Obama as against the flood of lies we have all experienced. As promised, here’s a lengthy excerpt from that...
Read MoreI. Waves of Slander I don’t have statistics, but we all know there’s a lot of falsehood circulating freely online. An email arrives with frightening accusations or innuendos and the reader gets frightened (as was...
Read MoreIf America “repents” – if America is repenting right now – is the Bush-devoted wing of American Christianity going to be “left behind”? “Repent”, you know, means to re-evaluate,...
Read MoreDrew Smith, ordained Baptist minister, wrote recently about shallow sermonizing (at his blog , Wilderness Preacher, and at EthicsDaily.com.) It’s dangerous for me to complain about useless sermons, since I deliver a...
Read Moreby Larry | Religious Right
Obery Hendricks, in The Politics of Jesus, Doubleday, 2006, also comes down to two basic criteria, but I think they are much more on target than my old standards. And, come to think of it, they are more ethically based.
Read MoreWhen I spend 10 minutes stretching my back on my inversion table I often read poetry or old cartoon books. This is from Tom Toles’ Mr. Gazoo: A Cartoon History of the Reagan Era, 1987. Ronald Reagan (runninng up the steps...
Read MoreHere is the key part of “The American Baptist Bill of Rights,” unanimously approved at the 1939 annual sessions of the Southern Baptist Convention, the Northern Baptist Convention and the National Baptist Convention....
Read MoreSince our hate is usually a direct response to an evil done to us, our hate almost invariably causes us to respond in the terms laid down by the enemy.
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