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Among white evangelicals, the more you went to church, the more likely you were to refuse the vaccine—never mind that it was the most obvious, easy way to help others around you. That’s gone; what’s left in the evangelical world is a consumer, transactional relationship. As Robert Jones, in his study of white churches, put it, “Jesus is conceived
... See moreBill McKibben • The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened
To think that pretend Christianity—claiming the goals of Jesus while ditching his ways; a culture embracing Christian values without individual new birth—is somehow closer to Christ than is outright paganism is the opposite of what Jesus himself told us (Matt. 21:31).
Russell D. Moore • Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America
A careful look at Jesus Christ will reveal an extremely self-actualized person, an individual who preached self-reliance, and was not afraid to incur disapproval. Yet many of his followers have twisted his teachings into a catechism of fear and self-hate.
Wayne W. Dyer • Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life
If He remains a historical figure who came to pay for our sins, then we may put a cross around our neck, we may go to church on occasion to thank Him for what He did for us, but we may not look much different from the guy or gal next door. But if you become convinced that Jesus had other reasons for coming to earth—namely to teach humans how to be
... See moreHugh Halter • Flesh: Bringing the Incarnation Down to Earth
We had not heard of Jonathan Edwards’s book The Religious Affections (1746). Edwards, America’s first philosopher, based his teaching on St. Augustine’s trinitarian view of man derived from the New Testament. Edwards’s paradigm, Dixon said, was far more useful for clinical psychology than Charles Darwin’s 1872 book The Expressions of the Emotions
... See moreVishal Mangalwadi • The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization
If natural selection means the survival of the fittest and the sacrifice of the weakest, Christianity is about the sacrifice of the Fittest (Jesus Christ) for the survival of the weakest (us).
Glen Scrivener • The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality
We must reorient all standards of measurement and look only at Jesus as the ideal.
Jonathan Welton • Normal Christianity: If Jesus is normal, what is the Church?
Paul went on to write half the New Testament, and he summarised his basic message as an obsession with “Christ and him crucified” (2:2). He presented the crucifixion of Jesus as a stark dividing line, with some deriding it and some devoted to it. Naturally speaking, a 1st-century hearer could only find it stupid, and a particularly shameful kind of
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