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To overcome our fears, I think it is basically fear, means getting to know people and to see that they

“It’s Not a Matter of Obeying the Bible": 8 Questions for Walter Brueggemann - OnFaith

If you do not have a practice of neighborliness, society becomes unlivable.

“It’s Not a Matter of Obeying the Bible": 8 Questions for Walter Brueggemann - OnFaith

We in the United States live in a deathly social context that’s marked by consumerism and militarism and the loss of the common good. Younger people that are committed to the gospel have to think carefully about how to critique that dominant system of military consumerism and how to imagine alternative forms of life that are not defined by those corrosive pressures.

“It’s Not a Matter of Obeying the Bible": 8 Questions for Walter Brueggemann - OnFaith

The thought of decentralization in the coming church is welcome. While the great centers of Christianity of the past will still hold historical value, there will be multiple centers that give shape to ecclesial identity. We know that we live in a post-Christendom context, and expressions of humility — learning rather than telling — are in order.

A new church is coming

#KKK recruiting in Auburn this morning. Collected 7 "invitations" from dtiveways on my street.

#kkk

The Holy Spirit is the continuing community creating reality that moves through history. He who works against community is working against the whole of creation

The Only Road to Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nonviolence – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Owning our own land, growing our own food, educating our own youth, participating in our own healthcare and justice systems—this is the source of real power and dignity.

Radical Farmers Use Fresh Food to Fight Racial Injustice and the New Jim Crow

The truth is that without good land and good food we cannot be truly free

Radical Farmers Use Fresh Food to Fight Racial Injustice and the New Jim Crow

Advocates of restorative justice argue that incarceration and other forms of punishment brought by the state against an assumed or convicted offender escalate a cycle of violence, and that it makes more sense for a person who has harmed another to restore the relationship.

Radical Farmers Use Fresh Food to Fight Racial Injustice and the New Jim Crow

And yet, that state violence is only one among many dangers. The biggest killers of black Americans today are not guns or violence, but diet-related diseases, including heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes. These illnesses affect minorities at greater rates than white people, in part because of a broken food system that allows only certain populations to access healthy food while subsidizing low-quality food for the rest.

Radical Farmers Use Fresh Food to Fight Racial Injustice and the New Jim Crow

Christian discipleship is getting our actions right; and our thinking in the end is the servant of what we do.

Michael Taylor, "Are you Oxfam with hymns? The Debate about Christian Identity"

#discipleship #disciple

All Boats Aren't Lifting

The United States of Financial Insecurity | Next Avenue

The real problem here isn’t the spat between Moore and Starnes, and whatever, who cares. It isn’t Starnes’s cluelessness about Jesus 101. It’s not even that Starnes–like so many others–confuses his own nationalistic agenda’s for Gods. It’s that, in the public eye, such extremist rhetoric is seen as an acceptable form of Christianity–if not its normal expression. I’m tired of people like Starnes who for some unknown reason have access to a microphone, a camera, and get paid to talk. I’m tired because letting people like Starnes talk about Jesus without adult supervision is like letting Justin Bieber discourse on Bach. I’m tired because I have to explain to people that, even if they think Starnes is wrong, this is the kind of smug character Christianity seems to produce. I’m tired–and angry–that many people will listen to Starnes and not conclude as they should, “What a complete fool; why is he talking?,” but “Wow, there goes another Christian.”

Fox News, American Sniper, Jesus, and…well…I can’t even

We must ask ourselves why we as the American Church have so much to say about sex, but so little to say about violence.

The Racial Divide and a Crisis of Theology and Will - Evangelicals for Social Action

No, individaul human liberties is not our highest value. Our highest value is treating human beings with love, kindness, generosity, respect and see them as embodiments of the holy, and treating the earth as sacred. Individual liberty is a strategy to promote this highest value, but when that liberty gets abused (as for example in demeaning women, African Americans, gays in public discourse) we often insist that the articulators of racism, sexism and homophobia be publicly humiliated (not shut down, but using our free speech to vigorously challenge theirs).

Mourning the Parisian Journalists Yet Noticing the Hypocrisy | Rabbi Michael Lerner

"But they ridicule everyone's religion, not just the Muslim's, so isn't that fair?" we are reassured. But the reassurance isn't reassuring. That they ridicule everyone is exactly the problem -- the general cheapening and demeaning of others is destructive to everyone. But of course not equally destructive, because people who are already economically and socially marginalized are in far greater danger of having this demeaning sting rather than feel funny.

Mourning the Parisian Journalists Yet Noticing the Hypocrisy | Rabbi Michael Lerner

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