Epiphany revealed King Herod’s profound insecurity and narcissism, and as a result his willingness to destroy the innocent in an attempt to retain power. The birth of Jesus introduced a whole new way then, and it does the same today.
I just signed off a tutoring session with "okay yall enjoy your saturday", accidentally divulging to my students that I live in a perpetual fugue state without any real knowledge of "time"
American notions of freedom are usually at odds with Christian freedom.
American freedom says, “my freedom is mine to enjoy.”
Christian freedom says “my freedom is for the purpose of serving my neighbor.” (Gal 5:13)
#masks
You can't be pro-life and put children in cages. You can't be pro-life and hide the seriousness of a pandemic. You can't be pro-life and support qualified immunity for police who murder. You can't be pro-life and ignore the facts of climate change. You're anti-abortion. Say it.
Please remember- every time you post something about Covid-19 being a hoax or a simple nuisance/no big deal, somewhere out there, someone is watching their family be ravaged by this virus. Let the knowledge of that & some measure of compassion inform how you speak & what you post
Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, brandishing an AR-15, walked by police after killing two people. Yet unarmed black people are shot in their vehicles or playing outside with a toy gun or jogging in a neighborhood. Violent riots are wrong, full stop. Racial injustice is also violence.
Now seems like a good time to tweet this page from Untamed by @GlennonDoyle that pretty much explains why Evangelicals backing Trump is just so outrageous.
I cannot take seriously—at least, as Christian ministers—the present-day gang that calls itself the Moral Majority...such as follow the Right Reverend Robertson. They have taken the man from Galilee as hostage. He does not know them and they do not know him.
—James Baldwin, 1987
John believed that in all of us, there exists the capacity for great courage and a longing to do what’s right. We are so lucky to have had him show us the way. I offered some thoughts today on his life and how, like him, we can give it all we have. https://t.co/7UHT86OzEj