thoughts &
notes

On one occasion, an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?” He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this, and you will live.” But he wanted to justify himself, so he ask

"And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God — what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2 Jonathan Rauch, in Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy, names something many mainline Christians have felt but have not wanted to say out loud: much of our Christianity has become thin. Not false. Not irrelevant. Not without compassion or moral instinct. Ju