Thursday, November 10, 2016

Jesus: Bleeding or Bulletproof?


Thank you to Rachel Elizabeth Asproth for her blog post  on justice vs. empire in the life of Jesus.

http://www.cbeinternational.org/blogs/feminists-take-cross-justice-over-empire

She writes:
Clearly, Jesus knew all about the human instinct for empire. He also knew a simple but profound truth: all empires fall.
So will ours.
...But a God who bleeds is irrelevant, even threatening, to Christians who worship a bulletproof Jesus.

These words of truth help me as I sit with the reality we must all face today, November 10, 2016.

What doesn't help: knowing that many of my fellow evangelicals supported Trump.  And I do mean fellows as in males.

http://time.com/4565010/donald-trump-evangelicals-win/ by Elizabeth Dias

http://religionnews.com/2016/11/09/are-evangelicals-expecting-too-much-from-a-trump-presidency/  by Emily McFarlan Miller and Jerome Socolovsky, Editor in Chief of RNS

Thank you to Religion News Service for these links.




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