Not exact matches
It wasn't the summer that brought an end to my doubt, but it was the summer I encountered a
different Jesus, a Jesus who requires more from me than intellectual assent and emotional allegiance; a Jesus who associated with sinners and infuriated the religious; a Jesus who broke the rules and refused to cast the first stone; a Jesus who gravitated toward sick
people and crazy
people, homeless
people and hopeless
people; a Jesus who preferred story to exposition and metaphor to syllogism; a Jesus who answered questions with more questions, and demands for proof with demands for
faith... a Jesus who healed each
person differently and saved each
person differently; a Jesus who had no list
of beliefs to check off, no doctrinal statements to sign, no surefire way to
tell who was «in» and who was «out»; a Jesus who loved after being betrayed, healed after being hurt, and forgave while being nailed to a tree; a Jesus who asked his disciples to do the same...
It wasn't just about the subject matter — although it's tricky to write about such a tender and intimate time in a
person's life, to
tell your own story while still holding space for stories that are so
different than your own, to attempt to shepherd
people well in the liminal spaces
of their
faith journeys — but it was also just the season
of life with being pregnant with our fourth and then giving birth and suddenly having four tinies between the ages
of 9 and newborn meant I had a lot less time with a lot less energy (and even less sleep!)
In my book Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation, I point out that in the original Hebrew version the word for «the Lord» that calls Abraham to sacrifice his son is very
different than the word for the angel
of God (YHVH) who tells Abraham to NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT, and that the reason we Jews celebrate Abraham as the father of our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GO
of God (YHVH) who
tells Abraham to NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT, and that the reason we Jews celebrate Abraham as the father
of our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GO
of our
people is NOT because
of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GO
of his
faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice
of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GO
of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE
OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GO
OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE
OF GO
OF GOD.
«What I can do is to create programs to bring
people of different faiths together,» he
told CNN just before the winners were announced.
But as a reasonable and caring
person I can honestly
tell you that these poor fanatics and their embarrassingly idiotic claims are, to me no
different than any human being who has one shred
of actual
faith in the bible or any supernatural «relationship» with creator theology.