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Mindset
To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. (Rom. 8:6, NRSVue) This post will be a bit more “autobiographical” as well as reflective.
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Week 16: The affections of Christ clash with my desire to retaliate
I have been drawn back into the Sermon on the Mount. Reading it, I hear the voice of Dallas Willard. It takes me a long time to move through the Sermon anymore because I feel like when it’s over I quit hearing Dallas as much.
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Bonhoeffer, nationalism, and the Kingdom of God
Some thoughts from my reading of Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Charles Marsh. There had been some Americans who had tried to get Bonhoeffer out of Germany before it was too late for him personally. They arranged for him to come to New York again and teach at Union Seminary.
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Bonhoeffer’s approach to the rise of Nazism
It was 1933 and the German national church was almost entirely on board with Nazi propaganda. Over 90 percent of the student body in the theology department at the university in Berlin had joined the National Socialist Party.
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Living in Babylon — why we must resist Christian Nationalism
I come away from a time of prayer more convinced that Daniel is a key model for the way we need to live as believers in America going forward. The script has flipped, but the nostalgia is tearing up the older generation of the church (of which I am very much a part).
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The visit without pictures
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted. We are finishing a trip to Israel and I limited myself to a phone and typing with thumbs isn’t my thing. But I wanted to make one note before I get back to working on posts about the Israel trip.
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Deep rooted problems of our nation
White supremacy. Nationalism. “Replacement theory.” These cannot be ignored. They must be faced and dealt with head on. I barely knew this was an actual theory. The theory was conceived in the early 2010s by Renaud Camus, a French author who has written about fears of a white genocide, arguing that immigrants who give birth to more children represent a…
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Heartbreak
Two stories I ran across that speak to heartache and grief I carry. One is about the deepening issue of Christian nationalism. I had called it culturalized Christianity years ago, and things are only worse.
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Warning to the white American conservative church
This passage leapt into my spirit as the Spirit said, “This is the warning for the self-righteous church in America.” Matthew 3:7-12 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit in keeping with…
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Bad publishing ideas
I’ll file this under “Jesus take the wheel” More HERE.
Tag: Nationalism
