A Lens Darkly Shaded.
No one is an unbiased observer of life.
A Culture of Shame.
We live in a culture of shame.Shame permeates every interaction and is corrosive to the fabric of our society.
Forgiveness
It is easier to forgive when people to be genuinely sorry for what they have done to us, but often they are not sorry…
Thin Places.
Movies and music are major ways our culture tells stories to each other.
Fully Human
Are our failures because we are ‘only’ human or perhaps because we are not ‘human’ enough
The Crucified God - Brian Zahnd
The Crucified God - Brian Zahnd
Irony: Jesus and the 'sinners' He hung out with.
Do the writers of the books and letters that make up the Bible have a sense of irony? In the Gospel of Mark in particular, there seems to be an underlying irony in nearly every chapter.
Reading the Bible Wrong.
I’m a citizen of a superpower. I was born among the conquerors. I live in the empire. But I want to read the Bible and think it’s talking to me. This is a problem.”
- Brian Zahnd
“Binding and Loosing” | jkdoyle.com
"In segments of Judaism 'binding and loosing' was a phrase associated with making authoritative legal decisions regarding the Torah..."
What are you 'unwilling to destroy'?
WOW… so that sounds totally horrible right? Why would God order such wanton and complete destruction? (Not the sort of verse most people have in their Facebook/Twitter profile.)
Beautiful Things.
Beautiful Things.
Faith: From Dead to Living.
In the faith tradition I grew up in, being ‘dead in our sins’ was taken very seriously. We were often told that we were born horrible sinners and that we had nothing good in us at all - that even our best actions were riddled with sinful selfishness. This tradition took being dead in our sins very seriously.
Literally.
Scripture as Witness... - Brian Zahnd
Scripture as Witness to the Word of God - Brian Zahnd
The Greatest Commandment
Jesus’ ‘neighborhood’ was full of outsiders, foreigners, sinners, the nameless + broken + poor… That’s who He ‘loved as himself’.
Generous Love
Jesus said ‘love your enemies’
Fear: The Voice Calling us backwards
Fear is the constant voice calling us to anoint a leader to take us back to the past.