The fundamentalists may have created a personalized Jesus we don't even recognize, but the liberals' Jesus, too, is an individualized Jesus who serves the empire - a Jesus painfully divorced from his ministry of justice.
Allan BoesakAnd besides, it drives the dragon crazy when you sing about his downfall even though you are bleeding
Allan BoesakI believe scripture is not just resilient but rebellious against its abuse by people. Scripture says it refuses to be used in that way for long. That is why the gospel that has been used by the oppressors is the same gospel that liberated the oppressed: They were reading the same book. Something in the DNA of Christian faith and in the Bible agitates against that kind of misuse.
Allan BoesakI think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.
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