Perhaps hatred fails to repulse you if you've never known how beautiful Love can be. Jesus. Resurrection hope. Black Lives Matter. CeasefireNOW! Editor/Writer
Just relistened to Rev. Tom Skinner's sermon at Urbana 1970 and then came here to tag @PhilVischer. Relistening to Tom's sermon after the most recent episode of Holy Post is quite profound. Fifty-five years later and what has changed?
Put on our comfy liberal pajamas
Crank up that soaring Sorkin rhetoric
Let our favorite tunes whitewash the disconnect
between policy and image.
Wipe our eyes
Applaud the speeches--
As if our chanting could drown
Out the screams of mothers
When we bomb their children.
“a good summary of Revelation’s message: uncivil worship and witness: following the Lamb out of fallen Babylon into the new creation.”
― Michael J. Gorman, Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation
of their erroneous human corollaries.”
― Michael J. Gorman, Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Followingthe Lamb into the New Creation
“Human beings, even apparently faithful Christians, too often want an almighty deity who will rule the universe with power, preferably on their terms, and with force when necessary. Such a concept of God and of sovereignty induces its adherents to side with this kind of God in
the execution of (allegedly) divine might in the quest for (allegedly) divine justice. Understanding the reality of the Lamb as Lord—and thus of Lamb power—terminates, or should terminate, all such misperceptions of divine power and justice, and
The best thing my students ever gave me. I thought they were just really diligent note-takers the whole semester, but it turns out they were compiling a book of all the craziest things I'd said, all *very much* out of context. It's 152 pages long.
“One of the women I was with was 80 years-old and [police] were sticking the truncheon in her ribs...we worried that her bones would break.”
Dartmouth Prof @AnneliseOrleck1, whose arrest went viral, says there’s “no justification” for the level of violence directed at protesters.
“This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” a reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma said, of the record number of children who have been injured in the war in Gaza. https://t.co/3CyjkzxGMp