meditation

The Hijacking of Christianity, Part 3

The Bible's overriding message moves from slavery to freedom, misery to joy, woundedness to wholeness, crucifixion to resurrection...

We in the Christian West have tended more towards thinking about Christianity than embodying Christianity...

Protestants declared the Bible inerrant; Catholics declared the Pope inerrant, and a lot of Churchianity-like nonsense followed...

I doubt that Jesus would waste much time in today's churches or listening to Christian radio stations...

Do a church's interpretations benefit the church or do they move people closer to the life of Christ?

When our checkbooks primarily fund and our facilities primarily host Sunday morning worship, we may be practicing Churchianity...

Being a member of a church does not make one a Christian any more than sitting in a garage makes one a car.

If we place the church, instead of Christ, at the heart of everything we do, then we are practicing Churchianity, not Christianity.

The kingdom that opens to those who become fully human is not a kingdom as understood in earthly terms...

The linking of the birth of the Christ-child with the winter solstice holds a profound message for us...