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"Good People" - "Bad People" and careless Anti-Semitism.

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Organized Religion: Should I stay or should I go now?

Most hateful religious people are not *too* religious, they are *not religious enough*

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The Things We See

Twenty years ago I picked a scrap of paper in a Starbucks parking lot… I haven’t been able to get it’s contents out of my head since

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God Management LLC.

…when we try to lock God into a particular container, we end up in the God management business.

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The Real Job of the Pastor

"The Real Job of the Pastor"

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Bankruptcy vs Hypocrisy

Christianity is bankrupt when it has insufficiently developed the humanity of its congregations to be able to carry the moral and spiritual weight of its rhetoric and beliefs.

Brandon J. Brown 6/16/18 Brandon J. Brown 6/16/18

Jesus was a child refugee

Jesus was a child refugee. Thankfully he was not taken from Mary + Joseph by the Egyptians. (Matthew 2:13)

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4 Questions for American Christians today:

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Ezekiel 34:7-11 (Barely Adapted)

"Therefore, you Christian shepherds of Alabama, hear the word of the Lord

Brandon J. Brown 10/11/17 Brandon J. Brown 10/11/17

An important distinction between rights and power

An important distinction between *rights* and *power*

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Splitting:

We tend to split off into a “pure” groups that agree with our way of seeing life.

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Follow-up: On quoting from Leviticus:

It was an intentional choice to quote from Leviticus yesterday…

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"YOU SHALL LOVE THE [FOREIGNER] AS YOURSELF"

What if my family were the refugees?

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Who is in Charge?

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What we do not know...

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Punishing Health

Anyone who is free and honest and direct will be punished, shamed and silenced

Brandon J. Brown 10/14/15 Brandon J. Brown 10/14/15

Measuring Stick

The measuring stick of any human system

Brandon J. Brown 10/5/15 Brandon J. Brown 10/5/15

Jesus was an undocumented, middle-eastern, refugee...

The central figure of Christianity - Jesus - was an undocumented, middle-eastern, refugee.

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That which we leave behind.

In the last few year, I have learned so much from grief. When so many people and things you love are lost to you…

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The people who tell us who we are.

The people we surround ourselves with are one of the primary mirrors in our life. They tell us who we are.