Theological reflection on the caravan of asylum seekers.
Author: Tattooed Theologian
Seminary educated theologian on a spiritual journey seeking to live out the truth of Jesus' teachings, and be an agent of Shalom in our world. Thy kindom come, thy will be done in heaven and so on Earth...Peace be with you.
Oppression in Jesus’ name
One of the things that gets me riled up is the conflation of things done in the name of a religion by fundamentalists with the actual teachings of said religion. Case in point, America in 2018 is being enthralled, in the most negative sense of that word, by fundamentalist "Christians" who are gleefully celebrating every …
Who am I to judge?
Love, grace, compassion
Grace and forgiveness: A theological conundrum?
Jesus' teachings on forgiveness are well known. We are called to forgive, just as he did, even on the cross. That's a tough ask for most of us, because throughout our lives there are people who do things that sometimes wound us so profoundly. Those deeply inflicted wounds can come with long lasting consequences, such …
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America first?
We are in the midst of yet another dark chapter in American history, which is replete with various crimes against humanity including genocide, murder, chattel slavery, warfare for profit, and being the only nation to ever drop nuclear weapons on another country-- the second bomb being a weapons test and not strategically "necessary". …
Today’s theological reflection
June 23, 2018 “The confusion of peace with security is a daily routine in our violent state of affairs. Judicial peace, school peace, marital peace – all degenerate into security under the influence of violent methods. The use of violence , expressed in force, extortion, and control, destroys the the end and increasingly replaces it …
Pride Month: A Christian reflection
In the early 1990s I was indoctrinated, the only other appropriate word would be brainwashed, into fearing and discriminating against those who were born homosexual. It was a time of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” in the military and I was in the Marines. I was also a member of a Southern Baptist Church in Honolulu …
Thank you for your service
I grew up in a rural north Texas town after relocating there with my family from Kansas City, MO in the early 1980s. During my childhood and teens, I was exposed to evangelical, fundamentalist Christianity of the conservative Church of Christ variety along with the Southern Baptist Church variety. In 1990, after graduating from high …
Some issues are black and white
Jesus was nonviolent. If one reads the Gospel accounts and takes them seriously, the fact that Jesus was nonviolent is easy to ascertain. It's right there, in black and white (or sometimes red, with 'red letter editions'. Angry white men are all too often the perpetrators of mass shootings. Despite having killed 9 people, all …
Biblical inerrancy is a myth.
Copyright Dillon Naber Cruz I am now a post-fundamentalist Christian with an evolving view of scripture and a still developing Christology. As a child I went to Sunday School, mostly because my grandparents sent me, along with their youngest son Steven (who though my uncle is younger than me) and sometimes my little sister too, …
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