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dear Sally,
Thanks for your post and for your link to mine.
Good reading!
Blessings,
Ken
God is with us- resurrection- Rev and real life....
God is with us and all will be well... Of course nothing stopped or blocked the wonder of the resurrection of Christ, but as I continue to ponder my reaction to it, and my reception of the gift of life this powerful truth releases I wonder why I so often fail to live and walk in the fullness o...
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Thanks, Amy!
I do have to say, though, that you are quite articulate and incisive in your own writings, and I do like hearing your thoughts.
And Nicholas, I have really enjoyed reading yor thoughts as well. I list you as a suggested blog on my book website, http://www.practicingparadoxy.com, which includes my mini-blog, "Beyond Us & Them."
Blessings to you both!
Ken+
"A Radical Middle Way Beyond “Us and Them”
Ken Howard writing about his new book Paradoxy: Creating Christian Community Beyond Us and Them has lays out the details of his thinking regarding the finding of an alternative way through the conflict that has been raging for decades within the Church. In a blog post this afternoon he points tow...
Hi Wendy,
While I agree that the Church's interpretation of passages like these has been imperialistic and oppressive, I'm not sure this particular passage is. After all, Jesus could have used the Greek term for "religious converts" here, but instead used the term which meant "learners." And the only commandment he gave was to love God and love your neighbor. If that is what he is asking his "learners" to teach, it is not so imperialistic, challenging perhaps, but not imperialistic.
The Great Commission is not so great
As a reference, here's the passage from Matthew 28 I am referring to: Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has b...
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