In other words, it’s just as much about Orthopraxy (what you do), as it is about Orthodoxy (what you believe).
Category / Christianty
The Death of Death — Center for Action and Contemplation
Jesus’ Resurrection The Death of Death Sunday, April 21, 2019 Easter The seeds of Easter are already found in Christmas. If God can become flesh, incarnating in the material world, then resurrection is a natural conclusion. Nothing divine can die. Easter isn’t celebrating a one-time miracle as if it only happened in the body of… Continue Reading The Death of Death
Source: The Death of Death — Center for Action and Contemplation
The Necessity of a Mental Health Ministry | Sojourners
Speaking and preaching will only take a congregation so far.
Source: The Necessity of a Mental Health Ministry | Sojourners
Carole Cadwalladr: Facebook’s role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy | TED Talk
The Resurrection of Christ the Lord from the dead–Thomas Merton
Easter and Historical Nuance | James McGrath
The key question of Easter is not one that historians can answer. Did God vindicate Jesus beyond death? But that doesn’t mean historical research is […]
Religious Left Thinkers: “No Middle Ground” with Nationalists – Juicy Ecumenism
Religious left thinkers equate Christendom, nationalists, “Christian Fascists,” and white supremacists; say there is “no middle ground.”
Source: Religious Left Thinkers: “No Middle Ground” with Nationalists – Juicy Ecumenism
Did Jesus Say That? | Keith Giles
I’ve started to notice that the wisdom of Jesus is a bigger part of our collective intelligence than I ever realized before. I often hear people who […]
Author interview: Anthony Bartlett, Virtually Christian – Faith Meets World
Like the tiny coral which over time produces a massive reef, the Christian Gospel has uniquely refashioned the human landscape. The nonviolence and forgiveness of the Crucified One has seeped into the deep structure of human affairs, throwing into relief the victims of human violence, and, at the same time, evoking life-giving responses of compassion, forgiveness and nonviolence. In this sense our world can rightly be called “virtually Christian.”
Source: Author interview: Anthony Bartlett, Virtually Christian – Faith Meets World
The Suffering Servant of Second Isaiah: A Non-Penal Consideration | Matthew Distefano
With our sacrificial glasses put to the side for a moment, what seems fairly clear here is not that the servant gives up his life to satisfy the wrath of God—that would have to be read into the text—rather, the servant willingly gives up his life (nefesh) non-violently (Isaiah 53:9) for the very people who put him to death. He sees the profundity of what he is suffering through and so, gains an understanding and a knowledge that makes “many” righteous (Isaiah 53:11). The knowledge that the servant earns is a recognition of both God’s desires and of what it means to be human. Anthony Bartlett calls it a “new theological-anthropological truth.” To be righteous—that is to say, to be like God—is to be like the suffering servant, the one who has no violence in him (Isaiah 53:9). James G. Williams drives this point further home in the following: “It wasn’t God who caused suffering, it was the oppressors. As the divine voice says in an oracle found in chapter 54: ‘If any one stirs up strife, it is not from me; whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you.’ ‘Strife’—the conflict of mimetic rivalry that results in violence—does not come from God.”
Source: The Suffering Servant of Second Isaiah: A Non-Penal Consideration | Matthew Distefano
St. John One: One 