I preached this passage probably a half a dozen times and never brought out that point. Thank you!
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I preached this passage probably a half a dozen times and never brought out that point. Thank you!
I often wonder from what setting is Ishmael writing. At first I thought it was real time, but then I realized, as you did, that it was him looking back. Is he an old man?
I'd like to remind all the "whatever happened to global warming" people that even though we're experiencing unusually cold temperatures in North America, it's summer in the southern hemisphere. Western Australia is expecting highs in the mid hundred teens next week.
I want to remind all the Romans 13 people that in the United States the "governing authority" is the Constitution not the president. After an election, we don’t swear to obey the president, the president swears to obey the Constitution. If he steps out of line, we must not.
Scrolling deconstruction accounts on social media can be healthy because it can be validating to learn that we're not alone. But to rebuild something new and better, we need ongoing, life-giving, safe community. That's what No Harbor offers!
I used to think stuff like this was fringe, but now I can see that it's much more mainstream than I had realized
"It is all too easy to see ourselves as fighting on God's side, to identify our ideology with what is best for the world and use it to justify crusades, pogroms or preemptive attacks. Projecting evil onto the world makes me unassailable right-a position as dangerous in politics as a marriage."-intro
Bill Clinton was the most powerful man in the world, and Monica Lewinsky was an intern and his subordinate, and in any other workplace that would be called sexual harassment, and if you don't take power dynamics into account when you talk about things like this, you don't actually understand consent
The gym. If you're not a member, get a free intro pass at one that offers it
Speaking as someone who was raised in conservative Evangelical spaces, I believe that some folks have drifted so far to the right in their theology that they mistake historic orthodox doctrine in the middle for far left and liberal.
Agreed!
I suggest replacing with these metrics:
"Strangers welcomed"
"Sick visited"
"Hungry fed"
Wonder if we would still be able to claim revival?
I call it "Idol Worship," as it is both an attempt to replace God with the state, and to coerce God to fulfil one's agenda.
Interestingly, in my former evangelical days, I spiritualized all of these: not literal poverty, but spiritual. Everything else in the Bible I took literally, 6 day creation, worldwide flood, but "blindness" was a metaphor.
I like sound of the "ease of reading" option, thanks!
Hey, can you recommend a good translation of Gilgamesh?
"I never said most of the things I said" -Yogi Berra
Christian Nationalism says: "God and country."
We say: "God and humanity."
Christian Nationalism says: "America first."
We say: "The Kingdom of God on Earth first."
Reminder that God's isial and preferred method of judgment is to let the people have exactly what they asked for.
I don't know what the answer is, but twice today on Broadway while I was at the street fair on the UWS, bicyclists sped through crosswalks I was in, against red lights, really endangering people. What do you suggest?
We deconstruct to reconstruct something better...
In NYC we haven't figured this out yet. Bicycles dont follow laws, speed through crosswalk against the red and are hazardous to pedestrians. Cars dont respect bicycles. Now sure what the answer is, but seems like enforcement might be a good start.
And keep in mind, this is a speed limit, not a ban.
This article is specifically about NYC, and OP is critiquing a proposed speed limit on electric bikes. My point is that unless you live in New York City, you're not going to see the benefit of this law. Those of us who do live here see the benefit because we're dodging these things all the time.
Curious, do you live in New york? I do, and I find myself dodging speeding bicycles way more than cars. One of my friends just got seriously hurt by a bicycle. They often speed, rarely stop at red lights, and go through crosswalks with pedestrians in it all the time.
That is incomprehensible
"The pursuit of certainty is a trap. The more we try to eliminate doubt, the more it will ensnare us, and the more we seek certainty, the more it will elude us. But the more we embrace mystery, the more beauty our souls will encounter."
-No Harbor, Chapter 3
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That's so metal!
