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As the political landscape of America continues to unfold around us, some classmates and I were left wondering how different Christian communities could envision and justify such different ways of being in the world? How can one Christian community teach that diversity and welcoming all is important while others insist that exclusion and purity are…

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” -Martin Luther King Jr. One of the questions I am exploring throughout this semester is whether a Christian community can be a site of resistance against systems of oppression and more specifically, can. We have been reading The Long Haul by Myles Horton as well as exploring…

Many Christians stake their faith on the fact that God is unchanging, immutable. His/her character may be but I can think of about 10 instances off the top of my head where God changed his/her mind or his/her approach to people (details for another topic). Interestingly, Christians then take the leap to claim some sort…

After some great biblical creation epiphanies, we explored baptism and initiation in the bible, the early church and today. The rites associated with baptism changed over time as did the meaning attached to baptism. Before the church was accepted and endorsed by the Roman Empire with Constantine, baptisms often involved natural bodies of water and generally…