How would the world be different if Christians went around saying, “God doesn’t judge you or condemn you for being transgender. God delights in you.”? What if we proclaimed that God doesn’t condemn anyone for being LGBTQ or heterosexual or poor or rich or black or brown or white or cisgender or transgender or from…
Jesus’ prayer is intentionally circular because he wants to make sure that we understand it. God is not out to get us by punishing us or condemning us. God is out to love us. All of us. The unity that Jesus prays for is a unity that’s based on sharing God’s glory with one another…
Religions sometimes make Ultimate Truth claims. What happens when two religions make these claims? We fall into conflict and rivalry over who is right about the Truth. But what if that misses the whole point? For Jesus, the point wasn’t about being right. The point was much bigger than that. It was about love.
And here’s the big secret that our culture doesn’t tell about Julia Ward Howe’s life: After her eyes saw the horrors of war, she became a radical pacifist and fought for an end to all war. And she did so by calling for a national day dedicated to mothers. Julia Ward Howe wanted Mother’s Day…
Mother’s Day isn’t just about Hallmark Cards. It has a subversive political history of nonviolence and it is rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The book of Revelation gives us two choices: Live by the Kingdom of God or the Empire of Rome. Revelation reveals that sometimes living in the Kingdom of God means you have to participate in civil disobedience.