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Archive: May 6, 2007 - May 12, 2007
God's Non-Violent Revolutionary
Jesus was not a secular social revolutionary. He was God's revolutionary.
By Marcus Borg | May 11, 2007; 10:33 AM ET | Comments (44)
Accuracy and Inadequacy
Jesus—at least for myself as a Christian—exemplified the justice of God over against the injustice of imperial power.
By John Dominic Crossan | May 11, 2007; 9:33 AM ET | Comments (43)
A Revolutionary of Revolutionaries
His was a revolution not of principalities, but of the human heart.
By Charles "Chuck" Colson | May 11, 2007; 8:09 AM ET | Comments (53)
Jesus Taught Revolution in an Evolutionay Way
Jesus was supra-political, beyond our limited conception, and he was also concerned with our internal, personal transformation.
By Jim Cooper | May 11, 2007; 7:36 AM ET | Comments (277)
Revolution of the Heart
In advancing this revolutionary objective, therefore, Jesus began with a call to personal conversion.
By William J. Byron | May 10, 2007; 9:18 AM ET | Comments (296)
Social and Non-Violent
What the gospel portraits of Jesus show is that he "non-violently" was an upsetter for the sake of justice and love.
By Martin Marty | May 10, 2007; 8:40 AM ET | Comments (31)
Thinking Critically About Politics and Justice
Jesus wants us to think critically about accepted political and economic policies, as well as about widespread social practices.
By Richard Mouw | May 10, 2007; 7:06 AM ET | Comments (60)
Revolutionary Love
The Jesus revolution was powered by love not by force.
By Thomas J. Reese, S.J. | May 10, 2007; 6:36 AM ET | Comments (44)
Tip from Jesus: Watch the Money
Just watch what people do with their money and then go to the Bible and underline all the texts about wealth and poverty.
By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite | May 9, 2007; 10:21 AM ET | Comments (105)
Salvation the True Liberation
A person who engages in political revolution, but dies unredeemed, spends eternity apart from God.
By Cal Thomas | May 9, 2007; 9:48 AM ET | Comments (129)
The Man Nobody Knows
Jesus, it seems, is just about anyone any Christian wants him to be. Poor man.
By Susan Jacoby | May 9, 2007; 8:09 AM ET | Comments (157)
Don't Limit Jesus to This World
Jesus was a social revolutionary in the same way that Mozart was brilliant at counterpoint.
By Nicholas T. Wright | May 9, 2007; 7:52 AM ET | Comments (49)
Americans but not Christians
The vast majority of evangelicals still consider the Mormon faith to be a heretic deviation from biblical orthodoxy.
By Samuel Rodriguez | May 8, 2007; 8:40 AM ET | Comments (148)
Words for the Week -- Serving Others is Serving God
On the authority of Abu Hurayrah, who said that the Messenger of Allah said: Allah (mighty and sublime be He) will say on the Day of Resurrection: O son of Adam, I fell ill and you visited Me not. He...
By Pamela K. Taylor | May 7, 2007; 5:43 PM ET | Comments (66)
On Mormons and Muslims
I cannot help but consider it a gift from God that it was a Mormon who illuminated those Muslim values for me.
By Eboo Patel | May 7, 2007; 11:40 AM ET | Comments (157)
Evangelicals, Mormons on Same Side of Cultural Divide
In vast areas of America -- especially in the West -- Mormonism is certainly a part of the cultural mainstream.
By R. Albert Mohler Jr. | May 7, 2007; 8:20 AM ET | Comments (671)
Mormons in the Mythical Mainstream
There really is no mainstream; there are just larger or smaller by-waters.
By Wendy Doniger | May 7, 2007; 7:20 AM ET | Comments (99)
Public Service and Private Beliefs
It will be publicly lived out values of his life that will finally put an end to the residual cultural fears that still attend the concept of Mormon Religion.
By John Shelby Spong | May 7, 2007; 6:47 AM ET | Comments (26)
