"Mainstream"? Sort of like calling the Connecticut River the biggest rivers in the US.
You're shrinking away faster than a pizza in front of Michael Moore and you still think you're important and "relevant"; you preach "diversity" and you're still about 95% White and Middle/Upper Middle Class. You clearly have massive powers of self-satisfaction and self-deception.
intellectuality? Just curious about the context that creates a need for your judgments on this church or any other. And at its worst how can it really ever be estranged from tradition?
Note that by "Older Understandings", I don't mean Christianity itself or the Bible, but simply the literalistic, exclusivistic, change-opposing understandings of Christianity, especially as found in theologically conservative protestantism in America today.
While there is a powerful segment of Christians who are vehemently opposed to it, I commend progressive theology and denominations that have a place for it. It's about time that people are willing to think about Christianity in new ways, especially in a world where older understandings are unravelling at the edges.
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The UCC is dying a slow, protracted death like the Episcopal Church. People can see through the veneer of Liberal theology, and know that in the end it is nihilism and despair.
Read Francis Schaeffer's classic work on the subject: The God Who Is There.
Trivia question: are there ANY heterosexual (male)clergy in the US?
NixonisLord 2 weeks ago
"Mainstream"? Sort of like calling the Connecticut River the biggest rivers in the US.
You're shrinking away faster than a pizza in front of Michael Moore and you still think you're important and "relevant"; you preach "diversity" and you're still about 95% White and Middle/Upper Middle Class. You clearly have massive powers of self-satisfaction and self-deception.
NixonisLord 7 months ago
what the fuck is up with his teeth?
elbabalao 1 year ago
@elbabalao i like his teeth! : )
jhgosnell 10 months ago
intellectuality? Just curious about the context that creates a need for your judgments on this church or any other. And at its worst how can it really ever be estranged from tradition?
astrubator 3 years ago
Thank you for posting this. I love Dr. Borg. :)
saintwithasword 3 years ago 5
Note that by "Older Understandings", I don't mean Christianity itself or the Bible, but simply the literalistic, exclusivistic, change-opposing understandings of Christianity, especially as found in theologically conservative protestantism in America today.
Ashiman12 4 years ago
While there is a powerful segment of Christians who are vehemently opposed to it, I commend progressive theology and denominations that have a place for it. It's about time that people are willing to think about Christianity in new ways, especially in a world where older understandings are unravelling at the edges.
Ashiman12 4 years ago 7
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The UCC is dying a slow, protracted death like the Episcopal Church. People can see through the veneer of Liberal theology, and know that in the end it is nihilism and despair.
Read Francis Schaeffer's classic work on the subject: The God Who Is There.
CAndiron 4 years ago