Changing Our Minds, Not God’s
As John puts it, “He will show the world how wrong it was about sin, about who was really in the right, and about true judgment” (16:8). This is what…
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Visible Compassion
Christians are meant to be the visible compassion of God on earth more than “those who are going to heaven.” They are the leaven who agree to share the fate…
Restorative Justice
It is not God who is violent. We are. It is not that God demands suffering of humans. We do. God does not need or want suffering — neither in…
God’s Outpouring Love
The Franciscans, however, led by John Duns Scotus (1266-1308), refused to see the Incarnation, and its final denouement on the cross, as a mere reaction to sin. Instead, they claimed…
Restorative Justice
It’s time for Christianity to rediscover the deeper biblical theme of restorative justice, which focuses on rehabilitation and reconciliation and not punishment. (Read Ezekiel 16 for a supreme example of…
One Caring Foot
The Spirit seems to work best underground. When aboveground, humans start fighting about it. You can call this grace, the indwelling Holy Spirit, or just evolution toward union (which we…
No Shame
We must learn how to recognize the positive flow and to distinguish it from the negative resistance within ourselves. It takes years, I think. If a voice comes from accusation…
Not a Punitive God
In his critique of his father and uncles, Jung recognized that many humans had become reflections of the punitive God they worshiped. A forgiving God allows us to recognize the…
Transformation Through Suffering
The supreme irony of life is that this voice of Christ works through — and alongside of — what always seems like unwholeness and untruth! God insists on incorporating the…
Waking Up
Religion, at its best, helps people to bring this foundational divine love into ever-increasing consciousness. In other words, it’s more about waking up than about cleaning up. Early-stage religion tends…