I read an article called: “Are We Morally Distressed by What is Taking Place on Our Border?” written by a woefully uninformed hack who happens to be a Postdoctoral Fellow-Scholar at Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics. He is a church planter and recipient of the Lifelong Learning Fellowship at Yale Divinity School and Yale …
Poor Enough To…
I’ve always liked the beggar-to-beggar definition of evangelism – “…one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.” Since I feel more beggarly than ever these days, I’m drawn to “my people,” not so much as an authority on God, but poor enough to reach other poor folks. Befriending the Lord’s beloved is no heroic …
“Black and Blue” Lives Matter
There’s a bunch of stuff that doesn’t matter, like arguing about one another’s mottos about what matters! Just so you know, I’m pretty sure that it’s my life that actually matters most! Okay, I’m willing to concede that everyone who looks like me and agrees with me matter too––somewhat. Of course, we also stand for …
Some more excuses of not-so-good Samaritans
I offer a few more suggested excuses for being less than ideal Samaritans… “I don’t have time to help so-called ‘underserved’ people. I’m too busy just trying to raise my family and pay the mortgage.” It says that the Samaritan came across the dying man “as he traveled.” He must have been on his …
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Some excuses of not-so-good Samaritans
We’ve established that, even if Jesus didn’t exactly intend his parable to point directly to the kind of Samaritan he would be, he would make an “Ideal Samaritan.” Looking at the way he treats thrashed people, if we’re honest, we see how far we are from that ideal and might even consider ourselves “Inadequate Samaritans.” …
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