Posts Tagged "church"
The Irony of Christians Making Fun of the Gay Community
The irony of making fun of people who are gay is similar to the irony of making fun of anyone. That is, we make fun of people, ideas and cultures that don’t align with our agendas, personalities, and belief systems. This is the essence of making fun. At the heart of bullying is misunderstanding and a lack of relationship to that which we choose to ridicule. We make fun of people because we...
Read MoreHow to Criticize the Church and Still Be Considered Cool
Criticism is one’s ability to complain about anything not personally appealing by wrapping harsh, hyper-emotional rants into slick, counter-cultural, spine tingling rhetoric. Criticism is perceived as–for lack of a better word–edgy. To criticize is to stand in opposition, to evoke a seemingly preeminent attitude against the establishment. And where we stand in opposition is where...
Read MoreReligious Christianity Is Like Transactional Sex
The religious pursuit of Christian domestication is not what Jesus died for. The book of Acts regularly identifies scholars and gurus of the law; religious lab rats of the day spinning round and round on self-invented wheels of spiritual disconnect. Religious advocates of self-centered irrelevancy based their lives on comfortable yet mendacious realities. Contradictorily, the apostles lives were...
Read MoreHow to Fake Friendships With Church Newcomers and Still Keep Your Real Friends
Let’s face it, there are people in our lives whom we consider to be our friends, and then there are people we don’t care about. We maintain and regulate our few, coagulated homies like Mr. Rogers used to maintain his golden, button-up sweater and blue suede shoes–daily and exclusively–the same, basic outfit every single show. Walking into a church for the first time on a Sunday...
Read MoreThe Threat of Generosity
Talk of generosity is on the rise. All the indie kids are singing about it in their basements. Like Donald Trump on a good day, we can’t spend our generosity quickly enough. We’ve more generosity than we know what to do with. Generosity lining our pockets, spilling from our cars; we’re up to our ears in the stuff. We’re saturated. Our cups runneth over. Generosity here, there,...
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