Mercy not Sacrifice (5): Redemptive Hospitality We are thinking through Richard Beck’s illuminating book, Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality. So far, we’ve talked about disgust psychology, contagion logic, sociomoral disgust, and contempt. Beck’s goal is to help us understand the impulses we have that move us to reject or accept, to see asContinue reading “Mercy not Sacrifice (5): Redemptive Hospitality”
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Wendell Berry: To care for what we know
• • • To care for what we know requires care for what we don’t, the world’s lives dark in the soil, dark in the dark. Forbearance is the first care we give to what we do not know. We live by lives we don’t intend, lives that exceed our thoughts and needs, outlast ourContinue reading “Wendell Berry: To care for what we know”
Mercy not Sacrifice (4): The Act that Counters Contempt
Mercy not Sacrifice (4): The Act that Counters Contempt We are thinking through Richard Beck’s illuminating book, Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality. In our first post, we introduced his suggestion that disgust psychology can help explain the ways we view and treat other people. Do we view them through the lens of sacrificeContinue reading “Mercy not Sacrifice (4): The Act that Counters Contempt”
Mercy not Sacrifice (3): Of naked savages and crucified thieves
We are thinking through Richard Beck’s illuminating book, Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality. In our first post, we introduced his suggestion that disgust psychology can help explain the ways we view and treat other people. Do we view them through the lens of sacrifice — that is, with a purity filter that setsContinue reading “Mercy not Sacrifice (3): Of naked savages and crucified thieves”
Mercy not Sacrifice (2): How do we view the “unclean”?
We are thinking through Richard Beck’s illuminating book, Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality. In our first post, we introduced his suggestion that disgust psychology can help explain the ways we view and treat other people. Beck’s focus in this study will be on the church, and answers to questions like: Why do churches,Continue reading “Mercy not Sacrifice (2): How do we view the “unclean”?”
Mercy not Sacrifice (part 1)
One of the most important and influential books I have read in the last decade is Richard Beck’s Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality. Along with Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, Beck’s book pulls back the curtain on some fundamental reasons why we think andContinue reading “Mercy not Sacrifice (part 1)”
Racism: One Tragic Outcome of Misunderstanding Grace
• Traditional Western Christian theology has not always served us or our world well. As a particular example of this, I would refer to our accepted understandings of “grace” and its implications. The debates between medieval Roman Catholics and the Protestant reformers focused on the nature of grace as it applied to individuals and theirContinue reading “Racism: One Tragic Outcome of Misunderstanding Grace”
John Fea on U.S. evangelicals and a sorry history on race relations
Today, I would like to direct your attention to John Fea’s overview of American white evangelicalism’s history of entanglement with racism. Fea is Professor of American History at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 2002. His current book is Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump (Eerdmans, June 2018). READ: HowContinue reading “John Fea on U.S. evangelicals and a sorry history on race relations”
Frederick Buechner: Pay Attention
Frederick Buechner Pay Attention The biblical faith says creation is of enormous importance because God created it. He made it, he sustains it, he speaks in it, he moves in it. He sent the Christ into it, who walked on it, who got sick from it, who ate on it, who wanted a job onContinue reading “Frederick Buechner: Pay Attention”
Excerpt from “The Sins of a Nation” (Fr. Stephen Freeman)
An excerpt from “The Sins of a Nation” By Father Stephen Freeman, Glory to God for All Things Nations (and individuals) who ignore their wounds and griefs do not leave them behind – they bring them forward and repeat their battles endlessly. Subsequent generations who never knew the first cause, become the unwitting bearers ofContinue reading “Excerpt from “The Sins of a Nation” (Fr. Stephen Freeman)”
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