Living with a Lizard
This “lizard” is our brain’s least-evolved-dinosaur-part (the brain stem). Our Lizard controls our *FIGHT* or *FLIGHT* or *FREEZE* Survival-System (let’s use FFFSS for short) and can highjack all other systems toward this end. Our Lizard and our FFFSS are the featured guests for this post!
Organized Religion: Should I stay or should I go now?
Most hateful religious people are not *too* religious, they are *not religious enough*
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
God Management LLC.
…when we try to lock God into a particular container, we end up in the God management business.
The Real Job of the Pastor
"The Real Job of the Pastor"
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.
Breakups suck.
Breaking are the worst: Triangles, Grounding, and Uninviting.
Jesus was a child refugee
Jesus was a child refugee. Thankfully he was not taken from Mary + Joseph by the Egyptians. (Matthew 2:13)
4 Questions for American Christians today:
4 Questions for American Christians today:
An important distinction between *rights* and *power*
An important distinction between *rights* and *power*
Standing up to Empires.
Christians come from a tradition of heroes who stood up to Empires and Kings…
Splitting:
We tend to split off into a “pure” groups that agree with our way of seeing life.
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?
Who is in Charge?
Who is in Charge?
What we do not know...
Punishing Health
Anyone who is free and honest and direct will be punished, shamed and silenced
How Scapegoating Works:
The mechanism we use to excuse our own complicit participation in all the world’s problems.
Measuring Stick
The measuring stick of any human system
About TRUTH
We understand everything we experience or perceive from within a storyline our mind has constructed over the course of our life so far.