The Golden Rule Poster – A History

Our current intellectual and cultural crisis demands a sense of solidarity and common humanity that is intrinsic to the Christian faith, and we should recover the early church’s spirit of passionate engagement with culture based on the mystery of the incarnation.

It’s in the accusation that a viewpoint is “on the wrong side of history”. Apparently, history is headed somewhere—somewhere that can be known in advance. Somewhere better. Such a belief in progress is not a human universal by any stretch. In previous cultures, it was the past that was viewed as better than the present. After all, the past was real

the chief purpose of the Bible is to foster loving relationships with God and other people. The Bible’s primary purpose is not about governing our behaviors or restricting our desires. It is certainly not for enforcing our own preferences upon others.