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Comment of the Day 2
By
Tony Jones
More on the Sermon on the Mount, now from Mark Van Steewyk: Hrmpfh. I could write volumes in response to the different assumptions and assertions already popping up here. But I’ll try to keep it brief. 🙂 First of all, the silly “knife to my child and wife” thing is such a tired counter-response. I…
Comment of the Day
By
Tony Jones
Angela, on the Sermon on the Mount and martial arts: People are always telling me that when Jesus said “turn the other cheek” he meant “within reason,” that when he said to carry the pack an extra mile, he meant “if it won’t make you late for an appointment.” I’ve come to believe that instead,…
Proof of Systemic Sin
By
Tony Jones
I’ve been walking with my friend, Adam Walker-Cleaveland, through his tumultuous process of ordination over the past few months. And I’ve often urged him to abandon what I consider to be a broken and probably sinful system. Well, now he has gone public with the fact that his ordination to the PC(USA) denomination was scuttled…
The Sermon on the Mount Is an Ideology?
By
Tony Jones
The right-wing Christian Post picked up on the Dallas youth pastor fight club silliness, and did a follow-up interview with the Keysi Fighting Method instructor, Jeff McKissack. CP picks up on my blog post,* then gets this odd defense from McKissack: “Over the years I have encountered truly sincere people who believe we should always…
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