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Inspired scripture is worthless apart from an inspired reading.

Inspired scripture tells us that God is love and that love is the greatest of all.

If our reading of the Bible inspires us to hate our enemies and justify war and to arrogantly assume that God endorses it all...
...we are reading the Bible all wrong.

If we read the Holy Bible without the Holy Spirit, we’d be better off without it!

The chief priests and the Pharisees believed in the Holy Bible, but they resisted the Holy Spirit—the spirit of love, grace, and advocacy.
Thus the chief priests and the Pharisees fought against the one who is the Word of God...while quoting chapter and verse.

They used the Bible to justify their antagonism toward the Word of God. They didn’t submit to scripture, they used it as a weapon.

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There are real challenges to sustaining a vibrant Christian faith over the course of a lifetime. I fully understand the need to rethink and to adjust course in our faith journey. I’ve had my own experience with this. (1/6)
In midlife I discovered that the Christianity I knew was too weak and too thin, too compromised with consumerism and too accommodating to Americanism. To sustain a vibrant Christian faith I had to find a Christianity worthy of the Christ whose name it bears. (2/6)
The good news is that such a Christianity exists. It’s always existed — though rarely, if ever, is it the dominant expression of Christianity. Sometimes we have to go on a theological journey to find a faith that can endure for a lifetime. (3/6)
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From today's writing:

Modern Parisians walking with shoulder-shrugging indifference past Notre-Dame day after day could be an apt metaphor for the state of Christianity in a secular age. (1/6)
But as night fell on April 15, 2019, the people of Paris gathered in front of the still burning cathedral and held a candlelight vigil for Our Lady. There was no cheering; no one gloated; no one said, “good-riddance;” no one tweeted, “empty the pews and burn it all down.” (2/6)
Instead, television cameras showed thousands of grief-stricken faces lit by the flames, some singing hymns, others just weeping as they watched their beloved cathedral burn. I suspect many Parisians didn’t know how beloved their cathedral was until they saw it in flames. (3/6)
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From today's work on "What Can We Do When Everything Is On Fire?":

“Whenever deconstruction finds a nutshell — a secure axiom or pithy maxim — the very idea is to disturb this tranquility. Indeed, that is a good rule of thumb in deconstruction..." (1/4)
"...That is what deconstruction is all about, it’s very meaning and mission, if it has any. One might even say that cracking nutshells is what deconstruction is. In a nutshell." -John Caputo, Deconstruction in a Nutshell: Conversations with Jacques Derrida, p. 32 (2/4)
For Derrida, a text can be endlessly deconstructed. And though Derrida does help alert us to the possibility of hidden motives that may lurk in a text (often having to do with bids for power), do we really want to spend our whole life endlessly cracking nutshells? (3/4)
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