Sentences with phrase «once radical teaching»

For those who follow Jesus, authority should be surrendered — and shared — willingly, with the humility and love of Jesus... or else we miss the once radical teaching that slaves and masters, parents and children, husbands and wives, rich and poor, healthy and sick, should «submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.»

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I learned about equality even from Paul, who taught that with the resurrection, something radical had changed — not merely ontologically, but functionally — in the relationships between slaves and masters, Jews and Gentiles, men and women, rendering those whose identity was once rooted in hierarchy and division brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ instead; who put a radical gospel - spin on the Greco - Roman household codes, breaking down the hierarchies so that slaves and masters, wives and husbands were charged with submitting «one to another» with the humility of Jesus as their model; who taught that power was overrated and that service will be rewarded; who surrounded himself with women he called «co-workers.»

Whether offering her take on a social controversy, teaching about the lives of the saints, interviewing Orthodox monks, or discussing the vicissitudes of transitioning from a once radical feminist to a now devout priest's wife, Matthewes - Green's podcast is a gentle and loving presence in the contemporary dissonance of strident discourse.

In Commentary, Sohrab Ahmari makes the case that Teach for America, once a leading light of the education reform movement, has now «transformed itself into an arm of the progressive movement» and «functions as a platform for radical identity politics.»