How Can We Worship A Homeless Man

When You Poll Snake Person Christians, Christians Born After 1980, It's Like 80% Of Them Are Against The Death Penalty. It's Not Because They've Thrown Out Their Faith, But It's Because Of Their Faith They Can't Reconcile The Death Penalty With Jesus And Their Commitment To Jesus.

That Is Part Of Our Critique Of Some Of The Charity And Service Work Is That We Can Still Keep Relationships At A Distance By Creating Programs That Offer Services But We Don't Really Create A Reconciled Community.

I Moved To Philadelphia To Go To School At Eastern Partly Because I Wanted To Study The Bible And I Also Went To Study Sociology. I Like How Karl Barth Said We Have To Read The Bible In One Hand And The Newspaper In The Other So That Our Faith Doesn't Just Become A Ticket Into Heaven And A License To Ignore The World Around Us.

There Are Folks Who Burn The Koran And Hold Signs Saying, "god Hates Fags" And All Sorts Of Sick Things - And They Often Hijack The Headlines With Hatred. We Know That Is Not What Christ Was Like.

The Dreams Get Anchored In Aged Wisdom Not Some Utopian Fantasy.