Humanity has a long history of going along with destructive choices and behavior so long as the justification for it is dressed up with some God-talk. If state or church leaders want people to accept their calls for violence, discrimination, abuse, exclusion, or exploitation, many have found that dropping a few references to what GodContinue reading “Mumbled Church Words”
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Pattern-Changing Questions
In my college years, I was part of an evangelical-leaning group that made use of a small booklet titled the Four Spiritual Laws. A few members of the leadership team swore by this tract as a tool for “witnessing” to non-Christians, the basic approach being to walk them through the tenets it contained and thenContinue reading “Pattern-Changing Questions”
Cause a Commotion
This past Sunday was Pentecost Sunday, the day when Christians remember the story in Acts 2 of the Holy Spirit whooshing around the disciples and causing them to speak in different languages so that everyone there can understand them. It’s a story of confusion and chaos as much as it is one of newfound empowermentContinue reading “Cause a Commotion”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 