Reformation
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Time to Reform Again
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7 min read
12. Reformers sought to end the arrogance of Catholicism with the arrogance of individualism. Reading through Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, you get the impression there’s more than a little irritation there. He’s not just a little upset. Moderately perturbed. Slightly irritated. No. The dude was pissed. He was pissed at his church. He was pissed…
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The Idolatry of Individualism
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8 min read
11. And our communities have driven the divine into individual pursuits. If the command is to love God and neighbor, and if Jesus is present when we are together, and the missio dei (mission of God) is to build the kin-dom, then individualism is the stumbling block, the temptation for power, and anti-Christ. Individualism defined Let…
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Make the Kingdom
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7 min read
What Ash Wednesday tells us about what Jesus really wants. It is a time of wrestling with weighty issues of faith and of community; of justice and of the nature of GOD. To wrestle and prepare one another for greater unity. To heal the broken, to care for the weak, to help flip over and…
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When tradition must be broken
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10 min read
When the Pharisees enter the story, I see the religious establishment. They are the truth police, arresting those who compromise their view of the world. You are doing what we tell you not to do. Seeing them, I see the church today. In every skeptical comment the Pharisees make and every philosophical trap they try…