But God has shown me that I must not call any person impure or unclean. (Acts 10:28)
If we let it, this season can be a refining, a crucible experience, where the dross gets burned away and only pure gold remains. Blog at http://crucibleofthought.com
Brandon @ CrucibleOfThought
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I grieve what it cost me to walk away from that evangelical church and the politics I grew up with, but I rejoice in what I have gained when I woke up. I wrote a protest song about what I was learning, and I think it’s still relevant today. (Content warning for G. Floyd video.) youtu.be/HrqJMZhAdlo
Maybe his plan always was to bankrupt and fragment America so that his children could buy up the pieces for pennies on the dollar.
Brandon @ CrucibleOfThought
Brandon @ CrucibleOfThought
I will forever mark May 25, 2020, the day that George Floyd was murdered on camera by police, as the true start of my journey out of toxic theology and politics, as I watched my church of 30 years and much of America reject the clear teachings of Jesus in favor of protecting the majority’s comfort.
The newly repainted Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is 2030 by 167 feet, and over 11 printed pages of the Epstein Files deep.
It occurs to me that the “trans kids in youth sports” debate reveals something ugly about American society: we think of kids sports primarily as a gateway to making money, more than as a chance to lead them to develop strength, character, cooperation, and relationships.
"I love America more than anyone else" - in the sense that "I love the way it tastes as I devour it and pick the meat off the bones."
A story in two photos.
Worth reading. Don't think for a second that just because you call yourself "Christian" means you'll be on the right side of a push for Christian Nationalism: purges always narrow the definitions to exclude more and more people. And the Founders knew this, and that's why we have the First Amendment.
