Once there were some people who were quite myopic. Still, they got around just fine by getting up very close to things and kind of feeling around. One day the group of them saw a vast, ill defined shadow against the vague blue sky. As they approached it each saw something different. One saw, and eventually felt, a rough writhing tube of some sort stretching upward and dripping something like snot. Another found a solid pillar that she could not... Read more
Only human life is sacred, and the whole of religion and every individual religion in all its parts forfeits its claim to sanctity when it justifies violence against even a single individual child of the Divine. Read more
:I keep my promises" Read more
. . . ultimately the Spirit in its freedom will choose to breath through our words or not, giving us us cause for thanks either for her validation or correction, but never for self-congratulations or self-pity. Read more
Ultimately the refusal of congregations to allow yoga as a form of exercise and the presence of Muslims for either prayer or even self-representation is a sign of our fear of actually engaging the world Jesus died to save. It is a fear of truly being faithful to Christ. Read more
Christians of course need to ask whether, from a distinctly Christian theological viewpoint, we worship the same God as Muslims. Read more
II Peter 1:16 – 21 Robert Hunt I. Introduction You’ve probably heard the old saying that “it’s hard when you’re up to your armpits in alligators to remember you came here to drain the swamp.” It might well have applied to the congregations that received this letter. There are plenty of clues that the Christians to whom the letter was written were in a time of crisis. There is mention of persecution, false prophets, and divisions in the church. A real crisis! And... Read more
There is a particular hubris in believing that we of the West are the only people capable of taming our passions and pursuing rational self-interest . . . Read more
Religious freedom is the basis of freedom and democracy, not a byproduct. Read more
Muslims turned up in droves for the Coptic Christmas mass Thursday night, offering their bodies, and lives, as “shields” to Egypt’s threatened Christian community. Read more
Robert Hunt: Interfaith Encounters
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