Those who pray are aware of their own limitations; they do not kill or threaten with death. Instead, death enslaves those who have turned their backs on the living God, turning themselves and their own power into a mute, blind and deaf idol (Ps 115:4–8), to which they sacrifice every value, demanding that the whole world bend its knee. Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life. #Peace
Medieval Christianity is a very curious thing because, while it was present in every single aspect of their daily life, their practices were so different to ours it feel shocking
And by that I mean, what do you MEAN they only confessed and received communion once a year each???
The holiness of God requires that the revelation of his grace, victorious over all human sin, should not take place without the revelation of His judgment upon sin ....
Karl Barth CD II.2 pg 369
The attack by Christian apologetic upon the adulthood of the world I consider to be in the first place.pointless, in the second ignoble, and in the third un-Christian.
Bonhoeffer
Ultra Processed Food, and the system that produces it, has overtaken tobacco in terms of health and economic harms, and is also the leading cause of plastic pollution, loss of biodiversity and deforestation, and the second leading cause of emissions.
This week @TheLancet published a landmark three-part series on the science, policy and politics of #UPF. thelancet.com/series-do/ultr…
My friend Christoph Heilig just published an OPEN-ACCESS edited volume entitled Empire Criticism of the New Testament. You can see the ToC below & download the PDF here:
mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/empi…
Having very little meaningful connection with anyone, and working to barely make rent each month (let alone buy somewhere) will make anyone miserable.
John Gray put it to me like this: at least peasants under European feudalism had the promise of the afterlife.
Leading theologians like Ruether, Brock, Weaver, and Girard are abandoning divine sanction of the cross, reframing atonement around Christ's life rather than death. Andrew P. Campbell offers fair analysis of this revolutionary shift.
Leading theologians like Ruether, Brock, Weaver, and Girard are abandoning divine sanction of the cross, reframing atonement around Christ's life rather than death. Andrew P. Campbell offers fair analysis of this revolutionary shift.
Because I love you and care for your soul's eternal welfare, I'm going to go ahead and share this excerpt from a Holy Cross Day sermon by the one and only Katherine Sonderegger, just published in the latest VTS Journal.
I am reading this book. The Blumhardts influenced Barth and I have always been drawn to CFB. A voice for our times. Every preacher in every pulpit this Sunday and for Sundays to come should be proclaiming radical grace, love for enemy, opposition to violent speech.