Brandon J. Brown 11/6/14 Brandon J. Brown 11/6/14

A Lens Darkly Shaded.

No one is an unbiased observer of life.

Brandon J. Brown 10/28/14 Brandon J. Brown 10/28/14

A Culture of Shame.

We live in a culture of shame.Shame permeates every interaction and is corrosive to the fabric of our society.

Brandon J. Brown 4/29/14 Brandon J. Brown 4/29/14

Forgiveness

It is easier to forgive when people to be genuinely sorry for what they have done to us, but often they are not sorry…

Brandon J. Brown 4/5/14 Brandon J. Brown 4/5/14

Thin Places.

Movies and music are major ways our culture tells stories to each other.

Brandon J. Brown 4/1/14 Brandon J. Brown 4/1/14

Fully Human

Are our failures because we are ‘only’ human or perhaps because we are not ‘human’ enough

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The Crucified God - Brian Zahnd

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Irony: Jesus and the 'sinners' He hung out with.

Do the writers of the books and letters that make up the Bible have a sense of irony? In the Gospel of Mark in particular, there seems to be an underlying irony in nearly every chapter.

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Reading the Bible Wrong.

I’m a citizen of a superpower. I was born among the conquerors. I live in the empire. But I want to read the Bible and think it’s talking to me. This is a problem.”

- Brian Zahnd

Brandon J. Brown 2/14/14 Brandon J. Brown 2/14/14

“Binding and Loosing” | jkdoyle.com

"In segments of Judaism 'binding and loosing' was a phrase associated with making authoritative legal decisions regarding the Torah..."

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What are you 'unwilling to destroy'?

WOW… so that sounds totally horrible right? Why would God order such wanton and complete destruction? (Not the sort of verse most people have in their Facebook/Twitter profile.)

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Beautiful Things.

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Faith: From Dead to Living.

In the faith tradition I grew up in, being ‘dead in our sins’ was taken very seriously. We were often told that we were born horrible sinners and that we had nothing good in us at all - that even our best actions were riddled with sinful selfishness. This tradition took being dead in our sins very seriously.

Literally.