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It's Impossible To Separate Our Contemporary Practice Of The Death Penalty From Our History Around Race And Slavery, And Specifically, Lynching. Where Lynchings Were Happening 100 Years Ago Is Where Executions Are Happening Today. And That's A Haunting And Eerie Thing.

We Need To Be Politically Engaged, But Peculiar In How We Engage. Jesus And The Early Christians Had A Marvelous Political Imagination. They Turned All The Presumptions And Ideas Of Power And Blessing Upside Down.

I Am Convinced That If We Lose Kids To The Culture Of Drugs And Materialism, Of Violence And War, It's Because We Don't Dare Them, Not Because We Don't Entertain Them. It's Because We Make The Gospel Too Easy, Not Because We Make It Too Difficult. Kids Want To Do Something Heroic With Their Lives, Which Is Why They Play Video Games And Join The Army. But What Do They Do With A Church That Teaches Them To Tiptoe Through Life So They Can Arrive Safely At Death?

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

Charity Is Merely Returning What We Have Stolen.