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Sharon Brous • The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World
Rebekah Berndt • We are all cells in God's body
On the cross, Jesus was considered a criminal by the state and the religious authorities.
The first person Jesus promised paradise to was a man dying on a cross beside him—labeled a criminal by the state.
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Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth: 12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice
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Christian theology is language about the liberating character of God's presence in Jesus Christ as he calls his people into being for freedom in the world.
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
And I include myself in the criticism. We as the American church need to take more ownership for our collective sin, our obsession with things that will not make an ounce of difference in heaven, and our failure (past and present) to stand up and speak up for the poor, for the stranger, for the ones who don’t look like us.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
The great problem with dominant white theologians, especially white men, is their tendency to speak as if they and they alone can set the rules for thinking about God. That is why they seldom turn to the cultures of the poor, especially people of color, for resources to discourse about God. But I contend that the God of Jesus is primarily found
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