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The Monastic Folks Have The Spirit Of Being In The World But Not Of The World, Sort Of Peculiar People Who Have Gone To The Desert To Live On The Margins Of The Empire.

Jesus Still Has A Really Great Reputation And The Spirit Is Still Moving. I've Got A Lot Of Hope For A Generation That Takes Jesus Seriously, Once Again.

For Even If The Whole World Believed In Resurrection, Little Would Change Until We Began To Practice It. We Can Believe In Cpr, But People Will Remain Dead Until Someone Breathes New Life Into Them. And We Can Tell The World That There Is Life After Death, But The World Really Seems To Be Wondering If There Is Life Before Death.

I Just Have A More Holistic Sense Of What It Means To Be For Life, Knowing That Life Does Not Just Begin At Conception And End At Birth, And That If I Am Going To Discourage Abortion, I Had Better Be Ready To Adopt Some Babies And Care For Some Mothers.

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.