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(Ana)baptist pastor of a small-town rural Church. Love God, Love people. This sums up the law and the prophets.
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The fact that a man who openly declared himself a Christian says this is absolutely nuts. The entire idea of the cross is that values matter more than sheer strength.

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If you see someone saying their community is being erased, or genocide, and you think to yourself "it's just words on a webpage" remember this... In 1933 it was just Nazis standing in front of Jewish businesses calling for boycotts. In 1934 it was just bans on most Jewish children in public school

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Reading Thomas Merton talking about how we need to let go of our mind's eye image of Jesus and let the real Jesus connect to us through the darkness of unknowing and the grace of the Holy Spirit It's easy to think this is what White Evangelicalism needs. And it does. But let us remember, we all do

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In Prince Caspian, Lucy is able to see Aslan while her other siblings cannot. She knows she must follow the truth, even if no one else knows it. Even if it means fighting for the truth, and following the truth alone if need be. Even if no one else sees what is true in your life, follow it anyway.

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So are plane crashes going to become as common as school shootings under Trump?

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We actually had to fire someone who talked like this once, he talked like this both online and in person. He started fights with people all over town. The police even got involved on a few occasions.

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In Genesis 18, Abraham was ready and prepared to help the stranger who appeared. This is contrasted in the next chapter with Sodom who treat the stranger with utmost contempt and humiliation. 1/

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In the Lord of the Rings, Scouring of the Shire, everyone thought Frodo's cousin Lotho was behind everything that happened. But it turned out, surprise! It was Saruman, and Lotho had become a prisoner in his own home until he died. I imagine Trump's fate may well be similar

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"If Christianity is not seen as countercultural and even subversive within a military-economic superpower, you can be sure it is a deeply compromised Christianity." -Brian Zahnd.

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A good book has the power to make you hungry for the transcendent.

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