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Christianity Is At Its Best When It Is Peculiar, Marginalized, Suffering, And It Is At Its Worst When It Is Popular, Credible, Triumphal, And Powerful.

But What Had Lasting Significance Were Not The Miracles Themselves But Jesus' Love. Jesus Raised His Friend Lazarus From The Dead, And A Few Years Later, Lazarus Died Again. Jesus Healed The Sick, But Eventually Caught Some Other Disease. He Fed The Ten Thousands, And The Next Day They Were Hungry Again. But We Remember His Love. It Wasn't That Jesus Healed A Leper But That He Touched A Leper, Because No One Touched Lepers.

The World Is Looking, Not For Christians Who Are Perfect, But For Christians Who Are Honest And Who Are Willing To Be Honest With Some Of Our Contradictions And Hypocrisy.

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.

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.