Author | Vagabond Preacher | Lover of the Poor | Grandpa
Please take just a few minutes to read this indicting passage by André Trocmé’s amazing book: Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution. He and his wife saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War II, for which they were named "Righteous among the Nations" by the Holocaust remembrance center Yad Vashem. One might well …
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As you can see, President Trump’s popularity is waning among white evangelical believers. Yay! Good news! But what shaves a little off of the goodness of the news to me is that his declining support for this group of which I am a part, is driven primarily by economic pressures and cost-of-living concerns (such as …
“If Christians construct reality in pretty much the same terms as everybody else; if, in fact, they relate to immigrants, single mothers, the poor, the handicapped and anyone else who is “different” with neither more nor less compassion than others; and if they really do experience social, emotional and economic well-being in the same terms …
“If heaven punishes Communities for their Vices,” Samuel Adams wrote to his wife, Elizabeth, in 1776, “how sore must be the Punishment of that Community who thinks the Rights of human nature not worth struggling for and patiently submit to Tyranny.”
[I posted this in 2019. The "injury" has now become gangrenous!] Last time I introduced a newish psychological phrase, “Moral Injury,” which sociologists and psychologists are using to describe, “the damage done to one’s conscience or moral compass when that person perpetrates, witnesses or fails to prevent acts that transgress their own moral and ethical …
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