Great article. Love that Frederick Douglass quote! My husband introduced me to Jesus (in my 40s) after a lifetime of serious mistrust of anything related to organized religion and I discovered how much there is to love and and respect about that guy. Not a fan of how people like Wilson twist his teachings into something ugly!
Thank you for a poignant, well-written piece. How I wish all of christendom could read your work! Keep up the good fight. I saw you on Pat Kahnke's YouTube podcast and loved what you had to say. God bless you!
Great article! I really enjoyed how you looked at the theology of Howard Thurman and Frederick Douglass to distinguish between “two Jesuses” in the context of immigration. I wrote a piece about how Frederick Douglass interpreted Acts 17:26 as a repudiation of American Christian racism, opposed to the pastor of a Christian nationalist megachurch I’ve been attending that preached that the same verse promoted “national security” through protecting “boundaries and borders.” Both used the same verse in the same Bible. One to remove divisions, the other to strengthen them. Both these versions of Jesus have been playing out in America, ultimately leading to what we’ve witnessed in Minneapolis. https://open.substack.com/pub/searchingforberea/p/busting-dividing-lines-with-the-foreigner?r=52m5lw&utm_medium=ios
Great article. Love that Frederick Douglass quote! My husband introduced me to Jesus (in my 40s) after a lifetime of serious mistrust of anything related to organized religion and I discovered how much there is to love and and respect about that guy. Not a fan of how people like Wilson twist his teachings into something ugly!
Sounds like a nice guy.
Thank you for a poignant, well-written piece. How I wish all of christendom could read your work! Keep up the good fight. I saw you on Pat Kahnke's YouTube podcast and loved what you had to say. God bless you!
Great article! I really enjoyed how you looked at the theology of Howard Thurman and Frederick Douglass to distinguish between “two Jesuses” in the context of immigration. I wrote a piece about how Frederick Douglass interpreted Acts 17:26 as a repudiation of American Christian racism, opposed to the pastor of a Christian nationalist megachurch I’ve been attending that preached that the same verse promoted “national security” through protecting “boundaries and borders.” Both used the same verse in the same Bible. One to remove divisions, the other to strengthen them. Both these versions of Jesus have been playing out in America, ultimately leading to what we’ve witnessed in Minneapolis. https://open.substack.com/pub/searchingforberea/p/busting-dividing-lines-with-the-foreigner?r=52m5lw&utm_medium=ios
I'm Reading the Separation of Church and Hate. it explains a lot of this. What Jesus said vs what Paul taught.