What started out for Yuli and I as a grueling search for a church home that began in 2007 ended in warm communion. It’s been an immense pleasure to work with the Brednich family, the Henderson family, the Ortega family, the Calderón family, as well as the rest of the bunch this past year. [...]
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Good-Bye Tlalpan
Posted in Church - Theologizing, Cross-Cultural Ministry, Mexico, Tlalpan Church Plant, tagged Christian Churches, Church of Christ, church planting, Disciples of Christ, Mexico City, Missionaries, Missions, Tlalpan on Monday, June 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Quote of the Day #12
Posted in Church - Theologizing, Quotes of the Day, tagged bible quotes, John, material possesions, poverty, social responsibility, the needy on Monday, June 22nd, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
-1 John 3:17-18
The Refugee
Posted in Biblical Ethics, Christianity in Context, Church - Theologizing, Global Issues, Religion and Society, Social Justice, Uncategorized, tagged Bob Marley, immigrants, Immigration, marginals, Refugee, refugee ministry, refugees, UCC, UNHCR, United Church of Christ, vulnerable, World Refugee Day on Thursday, June 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This June 20th is World Refugee Day. A day which has been set aside so that we may think in some 42 million uprooted people (1 in every 50 persons) throughout our world. Hopefully, this thinking will lead to some form of action on our part. The country that currently has [...]
Quote of the Day #11
Posted in Church - Theologizing, Quotes of the Day, tagged Natural Theology, Wisdom, Wisdom of Solomon on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From the greatness and beauty of created things the Creator of them is by analogy perceived.
Wisdom of Solomon 13:5
Prop 8, The Sexual Deviant, and The Bible: An Alternative Christian Interpretation
Posted in Biblical Ethics, Church - Theologizing, Devotional Thoughts & Bible Studies, Ethics, Hebrew Bible, Religion and Society, Theology, tagged 1 Corinthians 6, agoge, blessing, Deconstruction, deviancy, Genesis 19, Gomorrah, Hermeneutics, homosexual, homosexuality, Isaiah 56, Leviticus 18, LGBT, Paul, Postmodern interpretation, Postmodernity, Prop 8, Proposition 8, Queer biblical interpretation, Romans 1, Samuel Terrien, sexual deviant, sexuality, Social Constructionism, Sodom, sodomy, taboo, temple prostitution, the Bible, the Bible and homosexuality, UCC, United Church of Christ, Walter Brueggemann on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 | 3 Comments »
What is deviant? Deviant is anything that we deem, by our own standards of reality, not to fall into the category of “normal.” Cambridge Dictionary defines it as:
describes a person or behaviour that is not usual and is generally considered to be unacceptable.
Some past examples of deviancy in our society are: a woman voting, an [...]
Quote of the Day #10
Posted in Quotes of the Day, tagged Karl Marx on Monday, June 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretiert; es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern.
Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
-Karl Marx (1818-1883)
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