The Church Is A Place Where Broken

Today The Logic Goes Something Like This: 'calling A Ruler Son Of God Is Out Of Style. No One Really Does That Nowadays. We Can Support A President While Also Worshiping Jesus As The Son Of God.' But How Is This Possible? For One Says That We Must Love Our Enemies, And The Other Says We Must Kill Them; One Promotes The Economics Of Competition, While The Other Admonishes The Forgiveness Of Debts. To Which Do We Pledge Allegiance?

I Believe You Know Jesus Said "a Doctor Doesn't Come To The Healthy, But The Sick, And It's Not The Righteous But The Sinners That I've Come For," So I Think That That's The Scandal Of God's Love And Grace That No One Is Beyond Redemption, And We Can See That All Through Scripture, You Know.

There Are Financial Bankruptcies In Many Parts Of The Church. No Question About That. But We See The Possibility Of Reimagining And Revitalizing The Church.

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.

I Think We've Misinterpreted Some Of The Scriptures To Justify The Death Penalty. So Whereas A Lot Of Folks In America Feel Like We Can Do Far Better Justice  -  it's More Expensive To Do The Death Penalty Than The Alternatives  -  there's So Many Reasons That People Come To The Conclusion To Abolish The Death Penalty.