Jesus Creed

“Christians talk about hating sin and loving sinners, but the way they go about things, they might as well call it what it is. They hate the sin and the sinner” — from Jeff in unChristian.

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The following comment opens up chp 11 in Walsh and Keesmaat, Colossians Remixed, and it’s a good one.

This will close our summary of Brian McLaren’s new book, Everything Must Change, and I will post a “review” of the book Friday. My next series will be on Paul Louis Metzger, Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church.

Here’s a recent letter and it has taken me a few weeks to get it posted here:

You knew this would be next: does Colossians 3 have an “ecological” ethic or does it have implications for ecology? Yes — so say Walsh and Keesmaat in Colossians Remixed.

I have a PowerBook G4 with a password problem. Every time I try to update the computer or, as I’m doing now, trying to use a new WD hard drive on which to back up everything, it asks for a password. Which I give it. Then it tells me my password is incorrect. So, though…

In Kinnaman and Lyons, in unChristian, another issue folks have with the church is that it too political. Frankly, I see this today so much from both the right and left I am discouraged. So, let’s see what K-L find.

Kris and I had a restful weekend in Bellingham, Washington, as we were hosted by The Firs for a weekend retreat on the Jesus Creed. Gorgeous trees — tall Douglas Firs everywhere — and both the culture and climate of the Pac NW. Kris remarked several times that, because Darrel Smith purposefully scheduled in free…

Let’s get practical — so say Walsh and Keesmaat in Colossians Remixed.

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