Something beautiful
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April 22nd, 2006 at 2:47 pm
I like it too, but what the writer calls the Gospel, and for that matter the New Testament as a whole, isn’t really so clear. The text is a multiauthored anthology.
In Open Christianity, Jim Burklo says something along the lines of the result of this ambiguity is that we have to choose our Jesus, so to speak…
April 22nd, 2006 at 4:35 pm
Darius, you’re right. I don’t think the Gospel is so clear, and Christianity itself–saying nothing of the Bible–has many voices. I simply love the kind of community Jenell describes, the kind of things made possible by it. I love the idea of “loved one” being a starting point for identity formation, and resting and growing in spaces where the rules of cultural privilege and fear don’t apply.