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He (the Jew) asked (Him): Muhammad, “Does this funeral speak? The Prophet said: “Allah has more knowledge (only Allah knows)”. The Jew said: “It speaks.”\r\n\r\nThe Apostle of Allah said: “Whatever the people of the Book (Jews and Christians) tell you, do not verify them, nor falsify them, but say: We believe in Allah and His Apostle. 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You read it pure, undistorted and unchanged, and Allah has told you that the people of the scripture (Jews and Christians) changed their scripture and distorted it, and wrote the scripture with their own hands and said, \'It is from Allah,\' to sell it for a little gain. \r\n\r\n“Does not the knowledge which has come to you prevent you from asking them about anything? No, by Allah, (you are not prevented from asking but) we have never seen any man from them asking you regarding what has been revealed to you!\' ( Bukhari, Volume 9, Book 92, Number 461)\"\r\n\r\nHere it is clear that until Jews and Christians respect the Qur\'an as much as they respect their own Sacred Scripture, and seek guidance from the Qur\'an, Muslims should not seek guidance and knowledge from them. But from “any man from them asking you regarding what has been revealed to you!\' you may ask of him and learn. \r\n\r\nMutual respect is the key. There are people in all three Abrahamic religions who distort the meaning of some verses in order to denigrate and abuse other \'enemy\' religions. \r\n\r\nThis intolerance come about through the influence of Greek philosophy, with its requirement that truth must be unchanging and universal. This influenced many teachers of sacred scripture during Medieval times to believe that religion was a zero sum game; the more truth I find in your scripture the less truth there is in mine. \r\n\r\nInstead of understanding differing texts as complementary, they made them contradictory and declared the other religion\'s sacred text to be false.\r\n\r\nIf religion is to promote peace in our pluralistic world we must reject the zero sum game ideology and develop the pluralistic teachings that already exist within our sacred scriptures. After all “all prophets are brothers. 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Maller\r\n\r\nWhat does one do when two Sacred Scriptures have some verses that are in direct opposition to each other? \r\n\r\nThe easy answer is to claim that \'my\' Holy Book is true and the other person\'s Holy Book is false or corrupted. 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We make no distinction between any of them, and we are Muslims [submitting] to Him.\" (3:84) \r\n\r\nThus I believe we should always try to harmonize differences between the Sacred Scriptures of Moses, David, Jesus and Muhammad, and avoid claiming that only one Holy Book (ours) can be true. \r\n\r\nBut some people might object that the very next ayah contradicts the previous ayah when it states:“And whoever desires other than Islam as religion - never will it be accepted from him, and he, in the Hereafter, will be among the losers.” (3:85)  \r\n\r\nThere is no abrogation here. The word Muslim in the Qur\'an sometimes refers to a member of the Muslim religious community, and sometimes refers to all those who believe in one God; and strive to live faithfully according to teachings of their prophet and their Scripture. \r\n\r\nThus, the Qur\'an states that: “Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was one inclining toward truth, a Muslim [a person who submits to Allah ]. He was not of the polytheists.” (3:67) Only polytheists are excluded from the truth of monotheism.\r\n\r\nThis is why I think of myself as a Reform Rabbi and a Muslim Jew. Actually I am a Muslim Jew i.e. a faithful Jew submitting to the will of God, because I am a Reform Rabbi. As a Rabbi I am faithful to the covenant that God made with Abraham – the first Muslim Jew, and I submit to the commandments that God made with the people of Israel at Mount Sinai. \r\n\r\nI think the Qur\'an refers to people like me when it states: \"They are not all alike. Some of the People of the Book are (also) firmly committed to the truth. They recite the Verses of Allah during the hours of night, and remain in the state of [prayer] prostration before their Lord.\" (3:113 – Qadri)\r\n\r\nBut what about a Hadith narrated by AbuNamlah al-Ansari that once when he was sitting with the Apostle of Allah, and a Jew was also with him, when a funeral passed by him. He (the Jew) asked (Him): Muhammad, “Does this funeral speak? The Prophet said: “Allah has more knowledge (only Allah knows)”. The Jew said: “It speaks.”\r\n\r\nThe Apostle of Allah said: “Whatever the people of the Book (Jews and Christians) tell you, do not verify them, nor falsify them, but say: We believe in Allah and His Apostle. 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You read it pure, undistorted and unchanged, and Allah has told you that the people of the scripture (Jews and Christians) changed their scripture and distorted it, and wrote the scripture with their own hands and said, \'It is from Allah,\' to sell it for a little gain. \r\n\r\n“Does not the knowledge which has come to you prevent you from asking them about anything? No, by Allah, (you are not prevented from asking but) we have never seen any man from them asking you regarding what has been revealed to you!\' ( Bukhari, Volume 9, Book 92, Number 461)\"\r\n\r\nHere it is clear that until Jews and Christians respect the Qur\'an as much as they respect their own Sacred Scripture, and seek guidance from the Qur\'an, Muslims should not seek guidance and knowledge from them. But from “any man from them asking you regarding what has been revealed to you!\' you may ask of him and learn. \r\n\r\nMutual respect is the key. There are people in all three Abrahamic religions who distort the meaning of some verses in order to denigrate and abuse other \'enemy\' religions. \r\n\r\nThis intolerance come about through the influence of Greek philosophy, with its requirement that truth must be unchanging and universal. This influenced many teachers of sacred scripture during Medieval times to believe that religion was a zero sum game; the more truth I find in your scripture the less truth there is in mine. \r\n\r\nInstead of understanding differing texts as complementary, they made them contradictory and declared the other religion\'s sacred text to be false.\r\n\r\nIf religion is to promote peace in our pluralistic world we must reject the zero sum game ideology and develop the pluralistic teachings that already exist within our sacred scriptures. After all “all prophets are brothers. They have the same father (God) but different mothers (mother tongues, motherlands and unique historical circumstances that account for all the differences in their scriptures).  \r\n\r\nWe should not believe in the two other religions, but we should not disbelieve and denigrate God\'s other Prophets and Sacred Scriptures. As Abu Huraira narrated: \r\n\r\n\"The people of the Book used to read the Torah in Hebrew and then explain it in Arabic to the Muslims. Allah\'s Apostle said (to the Muslims). \'Do not believe the people of the Book, nor disbelieve them, but say, \'We believe in Allah and whatever is revealed to us, and whatever is revealed to you.\' “(Bukhari, Volume 9, Book 92, Number 460)\r\n\r\nLet me share a simple example of anti zero sum thinking. The Torah says that Moses was rescued by Pharaoh\'s daughter. The Qur\'an says Musa was rescued by Pharaoh\'s wife. \r\n\r\nFor almost fourteen centuries religious scholars have argued over wife vs. daughter; and therefore who “changed their scripture and distorted it, and wrote the scripture with their own hands and said, \'It is from Allah,\' to sell it for a little gain.” \r\n\r\nToday we know that both the Torah and the Qur\'an are right because Pharaoh\'s Wife was Pharaoh\'s Daughter. \r\n\r\nThe Pharaoh of the Exodus was Ramses II (1303 BCE-1213 BCE). He reigned from 1279 BCE to 1213 BCE (66 years). Ramses married three of his daughters, who eventually became principal wives along with Nefertari his first principal wife. \r\n\r\nDebating about which Sacred Scripture is the most accurate or true is pointless because only God knows the ultimate answers and we will only find out what they are  at final judgement time. 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Maller\r\n\r\nWhat does one do when two Sacred Scriptures have some verses that are in direct opposition to each other? \r\n\r\nThe easy answer is to claim that \'my\' Holy Book is true and the other person\'s Holy Book is false or corrupted. After all, if there is only one God, then there can only be one true revelation. \r\n\r\nThe problem with this easy answer is that every Sacred Scripture contains some verses that even true believers in that Holy Book think contradict other verses in the same Holy Book. \r\n\r\nSometimes believers maintain that such conflicting verses are not contradictions between two eternal truths but simply an indication of one verse abrogating another. \r\n\r\nMost often the commentaries maintain that the two verses\' differences are only apparent, and can be easily harmonized in various ways. \r\n\r\nAlthough I am a Rabbi, I follow the words of the Qur\'an that direct Muslims to say, \"We have believed in Allah and in what was revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus and to the prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and we are Muslims [submitting] to Him.\" (3:84) \r\n\r\nThus I believe we should always try to harmonize differences between the Sacred Scriptures of Moses, David, Jesus and Muhammad, and avoid claiming that only one Holy Book (ours) can be true. \r\n\r\nBut some people might object that the very next ayah contradicts the previous ayah when it states:“And whoever desires other than Islam as religion - never will it be accepted from him, and he, in the Hereafter, will be among the losers.” (3:85)  \r\n\r\nThere is no abrogation here. The word Muslim in the Qur\'an sometimes refers to a member of the Muslim religious community, and sometimes refers to all those who believe in one God; and strive to live faithfully according to teachings of their prophet and their Scripture. \r\n\r\nThus, the Qur\'an states that: “Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was one inclining toward truth, a Muslim [a person who submits to Allah ]. He was not of the polytheists.” (3:67) Only polytheists are excluded from the truth of monotheism.\r\n\r\nThis is why I think of myself as a Reform Rabbi and a Muslim Jew. Actually I am a Muslim Jew i.e. a faithful Jew submitting to the will of God, because I am a Reform Rabbi. As a Rabbi I am faithful to the covenant that God made with Abraham – the first Muslim Jew, and I submit to the commandments that God made with the people of Israel at Mount Sinai. \r\n\r\nI think the Qur\'an refers to people like me when it states: \"They are not all alike. Some of the People of the Book are (also) firmly committed to the truth. They recite the Verses of Allah during the hours of night, and remain in the state of [prayer] prostration before their Lord.\" (3:113 – Qadri)\r\n\r\nBut what about a Hadith narrated by AbuNamlah al-Ansari that once when he was sitting with the Apostle of Allah, and a Jew was also with him, when a funeral passed by him. He (the Jew) asked (Him): Muhammad, “Does this funeral speak? The Prophet said: “Allah has more knowledge (only Allah knows)”. The Jew said: “It speaks.”\r\n\r\nThe Apostle of Allah said: “Whatever the people of the Book (Jews and Christians) tell you, do not verify them, nor falsify them, but say: We believe in Allah and His Apostle. If it is false, do not confirm it, and if it is right, do not falsify it.” (Sunan Abu-Dawud, Book 25, Number 3637) \r\n\r\nDoesn\'t this mean Muslims are not to look to the earlier Holy Books of Moses, David and Jesus for knowledge about their own religion?\r\n\r\nIt seems to me that the general principle is that all of us need to “make no distinction between any of them,\" (3:84) provided they (the other religions\' believers) show equal respect for our prophet and Holy Book. \r\n\r\nIn the Hadith narrated by AbuNamlah al-Ansari, this Jewish man sitting with Muhammad claims he knows more about the dead or the afterlife than Prophet Muhammad, so with people like him: “Whatever the people of the Book (Jews and Christians) tell you, do not verify (believe) them, nor falsify (disbelieve) them,”\r\n\r\nThis is made clear in another Hadith narrated by Ubaidullah: \"Ibn \'Abbas who said, \'Why do you ask the people of the scripture about anything while your Book (Quran) which has been revealed to Allah\'s Apostle is newer and the latest? You read it pure, undistorted and unchanged, and Allah has told you that the people of the scripture (Jews and Christians) changed their scripture and distorted it, and wrote the scripture with their own hands and said, \'It is from Allah,\' to sell it for a little gain. \r\n\r\n“Does not the knowledge which has come to you prevent you from asking them about anything? No, by Allah, (you are not prevented from asking but) we have never seen any man from them asking you regarding what has been revealed to you!\' ( Bukhari, Volume 9, Book 92, Number 461)\"\r\n\r\nHere it is clear that until Jews and Christians respect the Qur\'an as much as they respect their own Sacred Scripture, and seek guidance from the Qur\'an, Muslims should not seek guidance and knowledge from them. But from “any man from them asking you regarding what has been revealed to you!\' you may ask of him and learn. \r\n\r\nMutual respect is the key. There are people in all three Abrahamic religions who distort the meaning of some verses in order to denigrate and abuse other \'enemy\' religions. \r\n\r\nThis intolerance come about through the influence of Greek philosophy, with its requirement that truth must be unchanging and universal. This influenced many teachers of sacred scripture during Medieval times to believe that religion was a zero sum game; the more truth I find in your scripture the less truth there is in mine. \r\n\r\nInstead of understanding differing texts as complementary, they made them contradictory and declared the other religion\'s sacred text to be false.\r\n\r\nIf religion is to promote peace in our pluralistic world we must reject the zero sum game ideology and develop the pluralistic teachings that already exist within our sacred scriptures. After all “all prophets are brothers. They have the same father (God) but different mothers (mother tongues, motherlands and unique historical circumstances that account for all the differences in their scriptures).  \r\n\r\nWe should not believe in the two other religions, but we should not disbelieve and denigrate God\'s other Prophets and Sacred Scriptures. As Abu Huraira narrated: \r\n\r\n\"The people of the Book used to read the Torah in Hebrew and then explain it in Arabic to the Muslims. Allah\'s Apostle said (to the Muslims). \'Do not believe the people of the Book, nor disbelieve them, but say, \'We believe in Allah and whatever is revealed to us, and whatever is revealed to you.\' “(Bukhari, Volume 9, Book 92, Number 460)\r\n\r\nLet me share a simple example of anti zero sum thinking. The Torah says that Moses was rescued by Pharaoh\'s daughter. The Qur\'an says Musa was rescued by Pharaoh\'s wife. \r\n\r\nFor almost fourteen centuries religious scholars have argued over wife vs. daughter; and therefore who “changed their scripture and distorted it, and wrote the scripture with their own hands and said, \'It is from Allah,\' to sell it for a little gain.” \r\n\r\nToday we know that both the Torah and the Qur\'an are right because Pharaoh\'s Wife was Pharaoh\'s Daughter. \r\n\r\nThe Pharaoh of the Exodus was Ramses II (1303 BCE-1213 BCE). He reigned from 1279 BCE to 1213 BCE (66 years). Ramses married three of his daughters, who eventually became principal wives along with Nefertari his first principal wife. \r\n\r\nDebating about which Sacred Scripture is the most accurate or true is pointless because only God knows the ultimate answers and we will only find out what they are  at final judgement time. The real test is how well each religious community lives up to its religious commitments to do good deeds. \r\n\r\nAs the Qur’an teaches: “For every one of you did We appoint a law and a way. If God had pleased He would have made you one people, but [He didn’t] that He might test you in what He gave you. Therefore compete with one another to hasten to virtuous deeds; for all return to God, so He will let you know [at Judgment Day] that in which you differed.” (5:48)\nCurrent or New WordPress Login Name (We\'ll send you a password.): malleraj\n\nTime: May 25, 2014 at 9:31 am\nIP Address: 99.60.176.208\nContact Form URL: http://provoketive.com/writing-for-provoketive/\nSent by an unverified visitor to your site.\";s:7:\"headers\";s:154:\"From: Rabbi Allen Maller <wordpress@provoketive.com>\r\nReply-To: Rabbi Allen Maller <maller.allen1948@gmail.com>\r\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=\"UTF-8\"\";}'),(68390,9443,'_jd_tweet_this','yes'),(68391,9443,'_jd_twitter',''),(68392,9443,'_wp_jd_clig',''),(68393,9443,'_wp_jd_bitly',''),(68394,9443,'_wp_jd_wp',''),(68395,9443,'_wp_jd_yourls',''),(68396,9443,'_wp_jd_url',''),(68397,9443,'_wp_jd_target',''),(68398,9443,'_jd_wp_twitter',''),(68399,9443,'_jd_post_meta_fixed','true'),(68400,9443,'_feedback_author','Darian G. 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We may sometimes disagree, but I am not your enemy.  I am your brother, and I would like it if we could be friends.\r\n\r\nTo begin with, relax.  I am not out to change your mind about politics, social issues, progressivism or evangelicalism.   I have lived long enough that I am not sure enough about anything that I would try and change another’s mind.  What I do want to ask is, can we talk about our souls and spirits and God’s heart for us as his family?\r\n\r\nIn the 1980’s I was a young college student at a fundamentalist school, and I drank the religious right’s kool-aid.  I uncritically took my marching orders from its leaders.  I marched, wrote letters, and even became a Republican party delegate.   Don’t worry, I became disillusioned with the whole movement long ago.  But many of the destructive things that the right did to you and to Christ’s body I was a part of and I am sorry.  I truly am.  \r\n\r\nSince I was in the thick of things, I can tell you that many of your judgements of the religious right during that time are dead on.  Did we trade humility for power, the spirit for politics, servant hood for being served?  Yeah, we did.  We did that and a lot more.  From outward appearances, what we were doing seemed to work for a while.  We won a lot of elections, passed a lot of laws, raised up a number of powerful and vocal leaders.  We became the Moral Majority and established the Christian Coalition.  We got our own television networks and had radio stations filling the world’s airwaves.  We had power and influence.  Things were looking good if you were a conservative Christian.  Or so we thought.\r\n\r\nBut something happened on the way to our modern Canaan; we traded grace for law, spirit for influence, prayer for persuasion.  We changed laws but not hearts.  We lost the soul of a generation while we pursued amendments to constitutions.  We alienated a lot of people we should have loved.  We chose power over mercy and decided to wage battles over values rather than see people as individuals.  I am very sorry that I was a part of something so foolish.\r\n\r\nWhen I spend time with my progressive friends, there are things I recognize in their eagerness to right the religious right’s wrongs.  They want change the world, create a world and country where the poor are fed and clothed; the homeless housed; the sick healed and accomplish so many other things.  I see the fire in your eyes and hear the conviction in your voice. It is familiar.  It is me not so long ago.  The issues are different, and the politics have changed but the passion is the same.\r\n\r\nLooking back, are there issues the religious right got wrong, and I would not longer support?  Of course.  There are many.  But ultimately what caused the most damage to the cause of Christ was how the religious right did what they did.  They abused power and were judgmental. They were heavy handed when dealing with those of you who disagreed with them.  They even went so far as to proclaim you were not part of Christ’s body.\r\n\r\nHere is my fear - are you going about things in the same way?  \r\n\r\nI am in process.  Ideologically I do not fit anywhere anymore.  I escaped the religious right years ago, but I have not found a home.  Recently, I have dipped my toe into the progressive’s water, and it has not always gone as well as I would have hoped.  I’ve seen how ugly things can get if you are not progressively pure enough.  I’ve been called ignorant, uneducated, hateful, mean-spirited, homophobic, un-Christ-like, and, yes, unchristian.  If I have asked questions, I have been labeled, placed on the fundamentalist shelf and ignored.  I have been seen as an enemy by those that I have sought out as friends.  It has been assumed that I do not care for the poor because I have not agreed with one political party’s approach to helping them.  \r\n\r\nI have seen pictures of your leaders with the president, Democratic big wigs and powerful leaders of the left.  It reminded me of the night I shook Ronald Reagan\'s hand and had my picture taken with him.\r\n\r\nYou can pass laws as we did.  You can gain access to power as we did.  You can win elections as we did.  Your influence can reach throughout the world as ours did.  You can do all these things but miss the mark and lose a generation.  Power corrupts.  Be careful.  Guard your hearts because, you see - it is so easy to become that which you despise.\r\n\r\nI am not your enemy.  I want to be your friend.\r\n\r\n\r\nDarian Burns is a writer, poet, minster and speaker who lives in Greeley, Colorado.  He blogs regularly on the intersection of faith and culture at www.darianburns.com.  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I may be a little more conservative than you are and not have as much confidence in government solutions as you sometimes do.  We may sometimes disagree, but I am not your enemy.  I am your brother, and I would like it if we could be friends.\r\n\r\nTo begin with, relax.  I am not out to change your mind about politics, social issues, progressivism or evangelicalism.   I have lived long enough that I am not sure enough about anything that I would try and change another’s mind.  What I do want to ask is, can we talk about our souls and spirits and God’s heart for us as his family?\r\n\r\nIn the 1980’s I was a young college student at a fundamentalist school, and I drank the religious right’s kool-aid.  I uncritically took my marching orders from its leaders.  I marched, wrote letters, and even became a Republican party delegate.   Don’t worry, I became disillusioned with the whole movement long ago.  But many of the destructive things that the right did to you and to Christ’s body I was a part of and I am sorry.  I truly am.  \r\n\r\nSince I was in the thick of things, I can tell you that many of your judgements of the religious right during that time are dead on.  Did we trade humility for power, the spirit for politics, servant hood for being served?  Yeah, we did.  We did that and a lot more.  From outward appearances, what we were doing seemed to work for a while.  We won a lot of elections, passed a lot of laws, raised up a number of powerful and vocal leaders.  We became the Moral Majority and established the Christian Coalition.  We got our own television networks and had radio stations filling the world’s airwaves.  We had power and influence.  Things were looking good if you were a conservative Christian.  Or so we thought.\r\n\r\nBut something happened on the way to our modern Canaan; we traded grace for law, spirit for influence, prayer for persuasion.  We changed laws but not hearts.  We lost the soul of a generation while we pursued amendments to constitutions.  We alienated a lot of people we should have loved.  We chose power over mercy and decided to wage battles over values rather than see people as individuals.  I am very sorry that I was a part of something so foolish.\r\n\r\nWhen I spend time with my progressive friends, there are things I recognize in their eagerness to right the religious right’s wrongs.  They want change the world, create a world and country where the poor are fed and clothed; the homeless housed; the sick healed and accomplish so many other things.  I see the fire in your eyes and hear the conviction in your voice. It is familiar.  It is me not so long ago.  The issues are different, and the politics have changed but the passion is the same.\r\n\r\nLooking back, are there issues the religious right got wrong, and I would not longer support?  Of course.  There are many.  But ultimately what caused the most damage to the cause of Christ was how the religious right did what they did.  They abused power and were judgmental. They were heavy handed when dealing with those of you who disagreed with them.  They even went so far as to proclaim you were not part of Christ’s body.\r\n\r\nHere is my fear - are you going about things in the same way?  \r\n\r\nI am in process.  Ideologically I do not fit anywhere anymore.  I escaped the religious right years ago, but I have not found a home.  Recently, I have dipped my toe into the progressive’s water, and it has not always gone as well as I would have hoped.  I’ve seen how ugly things can get if you are not progressively pure enough.  I’ve been called ignorant, uneducated, hateful, mean-spirited, homophobic, un-Christ-like, and, yes, unchristian.  If I have asked questions, I have been labeled, placed on the fundamentalist shelf and ignored.  I have been seen as an enemy by those that I have sought out as friends.  It has been assumed that I do not care for the poor because I have not agreed with one political party’s approach to helping them.  \r\n\r\nI have seen pictures of your leaders with the president, Democratic big wigs and powerful leaders of the left.  It reminded me of the night I shook Ronald Reagan\'s hand and had my picture taken with him.\r\n\r\nYou can pass laws as we did.  You can gain access to power as we did.  You can win elections as we did.  Your influence can reach throughout the world as ours did.  You can do all these things but miss the mark and lose a generation.  Power corrupts.  Be careful.  Guard your hearts because, you see - it is so easy to become that which you despise.\r\n\r\nI am not your enemy.  I want to be your friend.\r\n\r\n\r\nDarian Burns is a writer, poet, minster and speaker who lives in Greeley, Colorado.  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It wasn\'t just about the creeds of orthodoxy.  My transformation touched the political, economic and cultural.  Nor was it about left and right - while there may have been implication there.  The product is unfinished, and there’s a combined sense of both liberty and estrangement as a result.\r\n\r\nI still confess the faith of my upbringing, but its significance for me has evolved substantially.  I sometimes wonder how this fits into the rubric for discipleship.  Maybe I’m off course a bit? On the other hand, maybe I’ve learned how to be a little more honest and gracious toward myself and other people.  Most importantly perhaps, the journey doesn’t have to end at this point, and having conversation with others about it might be the doorway to the next chapter.\r\n\r\nDespite my resonance with Pagitt’s thesis, I do have some doubts about its soundness insofar as it’s superimposed on American culture writ large.  To what extent do others really relate to this, and to what extent is it more of a sub-cultural, Bible-belt phenomenon as a result of things like the information revolution, hipster Christian trends, and environmental changes in the burgeoning stages of young adulthood?  In addition, this narrative might also just nicely follow the typical stages of faith development - rules, doctrine, doubt, mature belief (or second naiveté) - but for some reason I\'m not sure.  Maybe I just want to feel more special than that :)  The <a href=\"http://www.emergentvillage.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Emergent Church movement</a> (with which Pagitt is associated) has sometimes been accused of being too ethnically and culturally insular, of being composed primarily of middle-class folks.  Whether this is fair, would it necessarily take away from the legitimacy of this testimony for a portion of North American Christians like myself?\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://peterrollins.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Rollins </a>talks a lot about a <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Fidelity-Betrayal-Towards-Church-Beyond/dp/1557255601\" target=\"_blank\">church “beyond belief”</a>.  We have our differences, but what Pete proposes seems to me to be striking a chord with a lot disenchanted would-be Jesus followers.  In order to do or be much of anything, a community certainly needs belief.  Going beyond belief doesn’t mean doing away with it or even changing it – though change might happen.  Moving beyond belief means changing <em>how</em> we believe.  Do we believe primarily with epistemology (knowledge) or ontology (being)? Do we lead with confession or action?  Do our beliefs first comfort or direct us?  Which kind of belief did Jesus embrace?  Maybe it\'s not always either/or.  Dark days require consolation.  But what does belief look like for privileged citizens in the land of plenty and power?  This is one of the main questions I hope to explore here, especially with regard to the responsibility that churches have in light of this belief.','From \"aha\" to \"uh-oh,\" and then what?','','inherit','open','open','','1627-revision-17','','','2011-11-04 16:49:03','2011-11-04 23:49:03','',1627,'http://provoketive.com/2011/11/04/1627-revision-17/',0,'revision','',0),(2428,24,'2011-11-21 10:57:50','2011-11-21 18:57:50','God decided He was tired of humanity, tired of the incessant selfish requests. He called His angels in for advice. \"I would like to go somewhere were these humans will not find me.\"\nOne angel spoke up, \"Hide on the highest mountain, they will not find you there.\"\nAnother angel said, \"The bottom of the deepest ocean.\"\nOne angel shouted, \"The dark side of the moon, they cannot see you there.\"\nGod not satisfied that these suggestions would hide Him, He summoned His wisest angel and asked him, \"Where can I hide so that these humans will not find me?\"\nThe angel smiled and replied, \"hide in their hearts, for they fear to look within.\"\n\nWith the worlds current events getting so much attention and the endless banter between politicians, governments and corporations it may appear that our world has lost its mind. One can find oneself lost it trying to fix all sorts of systems and entities to make the world a safe place to live. I would like to point out a view of things that allows one to loose interest in getting something from this world. Instead I will point to a Reality the demands nothings, asks for nothing, it simply is what it is. For some this is to simple, or boring. They are far more interested in fixing others and entertaining themselves in the drama of their lives.\n\nOne can liken the addiction we have to the drama of this world as to walking into a room of people watching their favorite soap opera. At the climax you walk up and turn the TV off. Now just imagine the response. Anger, yelling, pushing and shoving are likely effects of disconnecting people from their entertainment. Another example would be to walking into a crowded bar on a playoff night, turn the power off just prior to the end of a close game. Do you see the same reactions? One does not have to condemn this addiction we see to prevalent in society, one just at some point to decide whether or not to continue to participate in it.\n\nThose of you who were raised in any sort of religion, culture/ethnicity, sports team loyalists, soap opera fanatics upbringing were usually told what to believe and why. Even if you were not told directly it was obvious by the behavior of your family.  \"We are Bronco fans because we live in Colorado.\" We hate the Raiders and Chargers with a passion!\"  We are Catholics?Protestants/ Buddhists ect because we have been this faith for generations.\n\nHow do we know if anything is true? Can our thoughts, perceptions, families beliefs and customs be trusted as Truth?\n\n<strong>\"Man is intrinsically innocent because he can only choose what he perceives to be good.\" - Socrates</strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/YoungOldWoman.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1976\" src=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/YoungOldWoman-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nLooking at this picture, what do you see?\n\nIs this your wife or mother-in-law?\nWhich perception is real?\nDoes one negate the other?\nDo both exist simultaneously?\n\nI John 2: 9-11 Anyone who claims to live in God\'s light and hates a brother or sister is still in the dark. It\'s the person who loves brother and sister who dwells in God\'s light and doesn\'t block the light from others. But whoever hates is still in the dark, stumbles around in the dark, doesn\'t know which end is up, blinded by the darkness.\n\nLook around the room you are in. Is it possible to see the light? Or can you only see that with which the light illuminates?\n\nA persons way of speaking, behavior and thought process simply reveals what they are aligned with. Light doe not judge or condemn, its simply reveals what is. God is light and in Him there is no shadow or darkness. So evil is not the opposite or antithesis of God, but simply his absence. Perception is then extremely subjective.\n\nOur perceptions are derived from a mind that searches for the meaning of what it perceives or in other words identifies with. If the mind believes something has value it then desires it. Thoughts and feelings arise from desire, and the mind desires what it values.\n\nOur minds as children are innocent, like a brand new Mac Book Pro without any software. We then observe our families our culture our entertainment and we pick up the software that runs our minds value system which is called perception.\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2425\" src=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Prism-300x186.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" />\n\nLike this prism, perception derived from programming interprets the light and breaks it into categories. We then judge, evaluate and determine if what we see if valuable or something we would like to avoid.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Perception is Deception','','inherit','open','open','','1975-revision-16','','','2011-11-21 10:57:50','2011-11-21 18:57:50','',1975,'http://provoketive.com/2011/11/21/1975-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(2282,82,'2011-11-18 10:00:52','2011-11-18 18:00:52','As most of American society knows, the upheaval at Penn State has brought to the surface many deep emotions - all of which are justifiable. 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Many of these words have disheartened me due to the fact many of them have come from the fingertips of Christians.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2283\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Football by Nikki Johnson\"]<a href=\"http://www.sxc.hu/pic/m/s/su/supercolor/655092_football_5.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2283 \" src=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/football-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Football by Nikki Johnson\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n\r\nAs Christians, we\'re called to hold fast to a higher standard (His); not a conceited standard.\r\n\r\nIn engrossing myself this term in school in the Book of Genesis, some amazing insights have been revealed - ones I never even realized before. Such as in <a title=\"Gen 4:8-16 (ESV)\" href=\"http://bible.us/Gen4.8-16.ESV\" target=\"_blank\">Gen 4:8-16</a> where Cain experiences God\'s grace upon Him...despite the fact that he murdered his own brother in cold, premeditated blood.\r\n\r\nThough the consequences Cain had to endure we\'re rough, God still let Cain live - plus he protected Him! This unto itself is a grace that is absolutely baffling to the logical mind of us humans. It’s something that’s quite difficult for us to even fathom, for sincerely...isn\'t giving grace simply \"letting people off the hook?\"\r\n\r\nAbsolutely not.\r\n\r\nIt\'s interesting to note that the Hebrew word for grace, <em>hen</em>, translates out to be \"favor\"...just as the Greek word for grace, <em>charis</em>, translates out to be the exact same word.\r\n\r\nGrace is simply being in God\'s favor...to be chosen for a purpose that is His to be fulfilled through the ones He chooses. Therefore, grace, like forgiveness, doesn\'t reveal weakness...it reveals a strength unlike any other.\r\n\r\nIt takes strength to not react to the person who caused harm to you, or someone you know.\r\n\r\nIt takes strength, in turn, to love those who have harmed you, or someone you know...and turn the other cheek.\r\n\r\nGod could have taken Cain\'s life from him as “payment” for his actions toward his brother, but God took a higher road. He took the very one He created. The very one, as Christians, we truly need to be always seeking to emulate.\r\n\r\nCertainly, what Joe Paterno did was wrong. He should have said something right when these incidents occurred. Due to his lie of omission, his punishment is justified...his being fired as head coach of the football team. However, what isn\'t justified is the onslaught of judgment calls being made on him, and/or his supporters, by those who embrace Christ.\r\n\r\nChrist doesn\'t condemn.\r\n\r\nChrist doesn\'t cast judgment.\r\n\r\nChrist doesn\'t hate anyone.\r\n\r\nHe loves. He accepts. He forgives. He extends grace.\r\n\r\nSo, now let\'s discuss.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>As Christians, how can we extend the same love, acceptance, forgiveness and grace He calls us to have toward others that do heinous things, or even let them happen without saying anything, without watering down our own passions…or averting the law? 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teachers earn too much, people on welfare are lazy, or that I ought to think about getting a \"real\" job is rapidly approaching nausea-inducing levels.\r\n\r\nAt this point in my life, I\'m still a stay-at-home mom.  For now, that pretty much means that I homeschool our six-year-old (most days), keep the house tidy (more or less), take care of the dishes and the laundry (usually), and make meals (fairly often).  It also means that I have some spare time to blog about our failed science experiments, teach Sunday school, and play with an amateur orchestra.  I also have an unpaid job as Family Chauffeur.  Am I working hard?  That\'s difficult to say.  On a good day (most of them), it doesn\'t even feel like work.  So maybe I\'m just living it up, mooching off my husband\'s salary.  After all, I\'m not contributing to the family income.\r\n\r\nI have several friends and family members receiving public benefits.  They may not be working, or working many hours, at a paid job.  But every 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It\'s these issues that Doug Pagitt tackles in his new book <em>Evangelism in the Inventive Age</em>.\r\n\r\n\'Inventive Age\' is what Pagitt uses to describe the cultural shift we are experiencing - a new era that follows the \'Agrarian Age, the Industrial Age and the Information Age\'. For all the talk of \'missional church\' and \'evangelicalism\', how can we possibly tell people about Jesus without sounding like we\'re bible-bashing, forcing people into a mold they don\'t want to be in? Pagitt\'s suggestion is that it is <strong>resonance</strong> that best describes what we aim for when we are evangelizing - not conversion. The key to this kind of resonance is framing the good news of Jesus in a way that connects with people, and Pagitt looks at this from two perspectives. Firstly, a very contemporary idea, the <em>enneagram</em> is used to show the primary passions and fears of the nine types of people it describes. Each of these is embraced by the good news, each of them has \'points of connection\', resonances with the biblical story. Secondly, Pagitt looks at eight \'vignettes \' (or stories) in <em>Acts</em> that show the values in evangelism that he suggests are appropriate for the Inventive Age.\r\n\r\nThis is the fourth book in Pagitt\'s series on the \'Inventive Age\', which I found out is actually aimed at church leaders. At about 110 pages it\'s not a long or difficult read - Pagitt doesn\'t presuppose that you\'ve read all his other books or studied theology for decades to understand his references. This means that it\'s very accessible to a wider audience than just church leaders - anyone with an interest in sharing the good news of Jesus who finds that it\'s not as easy in 2012 as just pulling up a soapbox in speakers\' corner.\r\n\r\nOne of the things I find difficult about even the concept of evangelism in the postmodern context is balancing the idea that we are calling people to radical transformation as they meet God with the need to respect and appreciate the history and back-story of faith that the hearer has. <em>Repent</em> is not a word that Pagitt uses of his evangelism, despite the fact it comes up a lot more in the Bible than <em>resonate</em>. In the church context that I serve in, I can imagine a lot of people not being happy at losing the word repentance, yet for most outside the church it\'s covered with impossible negative baggage.\r\n\r\nThe answer, I think, is in assessing what we mean by repentance. It\'s become identified with a cataclysmic, one off, listing and rejecting of specific sins. That\'s not the meaning I detect from Acts or the Gospels - rather, it\'s about a continual process of lining your story up with God\'s story. It involves re-seeing and re-telling the past, re-examining the choices of the present and  re-imagining the future. In fact resonance is a good description of that process - the energy of God is transferred to us as we tune ourselves to the frequencies he is on. Yet it does involve change, even if it need not mean cultural assimilation.\r\n\r\nI don\'t think I\'m giving spoilers to say that Pagitt doesn\'t just give a new tract or a new tent-meeting structure to solve all the problems of evangelizing in the inventive age. In line with the particularity and variety of this new era, that\'s the homework that we have to do for ourselves. We would be suspicious of a gospel that in one form has all the answers for all people in all contexts. Pagitt instead shows that given the particularity of people we all have passions and fears that the gospel speaks to and tries to show that this way of evangelizing has its roots in the scriptures, in the Acts of the Apostles - which seems like a good place to start thinking about how to do evangelism!\r\n\r\nThe book resonated a lot with me, I think because of two main points of very strong agreement between myself and Pagitt. Firstly, he takes postmodernity or \'the inventive age\' seriously - not as a threat or a panacea, just as it is, inevitable and of the same order as the Industrial revolution. It must change the way we act and think but it cannot destroy the good news. Second is his insistence that the message of Jesus is good news.It saddens me to hear Christians make caveats on who the good news is good to. Take for example how Pagitt describes the Jerusalem conference narrated in Acts 15, when the church wrestled with how to embrace both Jews and Gentiles.\r\n<blockquote><em>Those practicing the acts wanted good news to be good for the hearer</em>. The apostles’ assumption was that the role of an evangelist is to tear down barriers that keep us from God, not add more of them. Everyone meets God as he or she is able, and there’s nothing righteous about making it harder to do. (p102)</blockquote>\r\nThis book is for anyone who wonders about sharing their faith in a context where \'traditional\' evangelism techniques seem hopelessly out of place. It will require you to think for yourself, it doesn\'t give easy answers or ready-made programs your church can just implement. Christianity has, as Pagitt says, \'always been a first name faith\' - you have to work out how it works in your place and time.\r\n<blockquote>It is, to be sure, a complicated time in which to proclaim good news. And I wouldn’t want it any other way. (p108)</blockquote>\r\nTo make sure the FTC are happy, I have to tell you that I was given a free pdf copy of the book for review and that I wasn\'t paid to give a positive review. <em>Evangelism in the Inventive Age</em> is released on February 1st 2012. 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With over 120 writers contributing to the conversation, the dialogue has been and continues to be amazing.  If you would like to contribute to Provoketive, begin <a title=\"Writing For Provoketive\" href=\"http://provoketive.com/writing-for-provoketive/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\r\n\r\n</div>','About Provoketive','','publish','closed','closed','','about-2','','','2011-12-30 11:59:29','2011-12-30 19:59:29','',0,'http://emergentvillage.dreamhosters.com/?page_id=34',0,'page','',0),(55,4,'2011-10-14 09:02:43','2011-10-14 16:02:43','Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were just two days away, and the Pharisees — the chief priests and teachers of the law were trying to figure out how to arrest Jesus and kill him.  They decided to wait until after the celebrations for fear that others would riot against the established church.\r\n\r\nSo they sent spies to watch the heretic in action in order to gather some hard evidence to justify the death penalty.  Flash forward a few days to Bethany.  Jesus is reclining in the main living area of a house owned by a man named Simon who happens to be a leper.  His disciples are with him and so are the spies.\r\n\r\nSuddenly a beautiful and distraught woman came into the room holding an alabaster jar in her arms.  As her eyes wildly searched each face, Jesus realized who she was.  <strong>The jar contained perfume made of pure nard and cost the woman a year’s wages.</strong>\r\n\r\nLocking eyes onto him she smiled, bent down low and broke the jar, and began to move towards Jesus so that she might anoint him with the contents.  However, knowing her intentions, Jesus quickly moved to the side avoiding the woman with her expensive perfume as he motioned to his disciple Peter with a single glance.\r\n\r\nThe perfume spilled recklessly on the floor near him and began to expand rapidly into a pool of aromatic liquid onto the surface of the floor as the woman fell to one knee <strong>astonished that Jesus would seem so repulsed by her doting gesture.  </strong>Disgusted with the woman’s sin Jesus turned to his Disciples and the Pharisees in attendance and said “She should not have wasted that expensive perfume. 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Jesus helped me disembark and with the wisdom and power of the Holy Ghost I have managed to stay out of that train yard for good.\r\n\r\nInstead, I\'ve hung out in churchyards. From the get-go, I loved this thing called church. Each Sunday was like a party. People from all walks of life gathering together to sing songs, hear a sermon, pray and cry and laugh together. Sometimes there were potlucks. Along the way, though, somewhere in adulthood when I realized church is not a party but an expression of God\'s kingdom, and thus, people are needed to serve and use their gifts to keep the kingdom of church going- this is when I shifted into living a church-centered life.\r\n\r\nI evolved into a super-volunteer. I was at everything. At one time I was teaching Sunday school, leading a missions program for kids, on the prayer team and I attended a Bible class on Sunday mornings as well as typically attended three services a week. 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Break out.\"   But the voice was so little that it was unable to keep  my attention.\r\n\r\nOne fine Portland morning when the rain was falling  pretty as the grey clouds cried from the sky, I had what  some would call an epiphany.  I had sat down to pray, and Lord knows I was a workhorse of a prayer warrior on top of everything else, when I felt the overwhelming presence of the Creator Lifeforce whom I know as God hush me right down with a startling single sentence : <em>unplug from every ministry you are in.</em>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I began to cry like the rain clouds outside my window as the voice of Love exposed my wretched overworked soul. Oh how hard I was working  to achieve worth through spiritual service and gain people\'s favor through church volunteerism. I was desperate to belong, but without a sense of self-acceptance I could not trust that anyone, God or the family of God, could accept me for Me. I had to work my way into that acceptance, and ohmyf*ckinggod, I was wearing myself out and neglecting my children along the way.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I trusted that small but big Voice that visited me that day. I began to unravel my ministry obligations. And then, I sat. Just sat, like a second-string right fielder sitting the game out in the dugout. I sat. And as I sat with my unscarred calendar hanging in the kitchen and my voice mail box empty and lonely, life unfurled within my perishing soul. I was in the wilderness, and wild as she may be, there is a vista of isolated  beauty  that can\'t be found unless you leave the hustle of the crowded city and head deep into it. <a href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-11e5hP2gX4k/Tcl0bgqG1uI/AAAAAAAAC3k/hnj8MlOYzMA/s1600/wilderness+church.jpg\">\r\n</a></p>\r\nThat was more than five years ago. I have discovered new canyons and mesas of wilderness wisdom on this spiritual trek. I learned that I actually do have an anchoredness in the love of God. We are good. But what is lacking is trust and security with the people of God. I still have a bent inside of me to prove myself lovable and likeable. I want to show you how cool I am so you\'ll be my friend. This surfaced again in my life not too long ago. My family and I are now part of an irreverent, irreligious faith community of fierce no-bullsh*t-allowed sisters and brothers, and even in this freeing space of life, I managed to once again move in a spirit of codependent neediness for love and approval. Once again the spirit of epiphany rescued me and once again, I am relegated back to the dugout which is just fine with me. I am blackdog determined to let the people of God prove that I am a woman loved even if I never do a damn thing to pitch in and help with whatever church chores that are begging for volunteers. I am capable, oh-so-capable, but my capability will ruin me like that first drink a recovering alcoholic takes. I have to say no and recover from my churchalholicism.\r\n\r\nIt\'s liberating and unsettling. I suppose there might always be a bit of a limp in me to veer into unhealthy service mode. But I\'ve thrown the crutches of churchcentered living down into a gulley somewhere in the wild. I\'ll stay on my wilderness sojourn knowing that I\'m in fine company with other sun-kissed women and men who will enjoy my company without needing me to do anything for them.  This is life unfurled on the inside and out.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Letting Go of a Church-centered Life','','publish','open','open','','letting-go-of-a-church-centered-life','','','2011-10-18 14:38:56','2011-10-18 21:38:56','',0,'http://emergentvillage.dreamhosters.com/?p=144',0,'post','',2),(697,1,'2011-10-18 14:38:47','2011-10-18 21:38:47','A profound spiritual encounter with God  at  the tender age of 18 derailed the train of self-destruction I was on. Jesus helped me disembark and with the wisdom and power of the Holy Ghost I have managed to stay out of that train yard for good.\n\nInstead, I\'ve hung out in churchyards. From the get-go, I loved this thing called church. Each Sunday was like a party. People from all walks of life gathering together to sing songs, hear a sermon, pray and cry and laugh together. Sometimes there were potlucks. Along the way, though, somewhere in adulthood when I realized church is not a party but an expression of God\'s kingdom, and thus, people are needed to serve and use their gifts to keep the kingdom of church going- this is when I shifted into living a church-centered life.\n\nI evolved into a super-volunteer. I was at everything. At one time I was teaching Sunday school, leading a missions program for kids, on the prayer team and I attended a Bible class on Sunday mornings as well as typically attended three services a week. I kept this kind of pace up for years, thinking it was how it\'s supposed to be. I felt pangs of tension along the way, though. When I slowed down long enough for the dust of my chaotic church schedule to settle I\'d hear the faint voice of my real self buried under the rubble  saying, \"This ain\'t right. You\'ve created an insulated church life for yourself. Break out.\"   But the voice was so little that it was unable to keep  my attention.\n\nOne fine Portland morning when the rain was falling  pretty as the grey clouds cried from the sky, I had what  some would call an epiphany.  I had sat down to pray, and Lord knows I was a workhorse of a prayer warrior on top of everything else, when I felt the overwhelming presence of the Creator Lifeforce whom I know as God hush me right down with a startling single sentence : <em>unplug from every ministry you are in.</em>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I began to cry like the rain clouds outside my window as the voice of Love exposed my wretched overworked soul. Oh how hard I was working  to achieve worth through spiritual service and gain people\'s favor through church volunteerism. I was desperate to belong, but without a sense of self-acceptance I could not trust that anyone, God or the family of God, could accept me for Me. I had to work my way into that acceptance, and ohmyf*ckinggod, I was wearing myself out and neglecting my children along the way.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I trusted that small but big Voice that visited me that day. I began to unravel my ministry obligations. And then, I sat. Just sat, like a second-string right fielder sitting the game out in the dugout. I sat. And as I sat with my unscarred calendar hanging in the kitchen and my voice mail box empty and lonely, life unfurled within my perishing soul. I was in the wilderness, and wild as she may be, there is a vista of isolated  beauty  that can\'t be found unless you leave the hustle of the crowded city and head deep into it. <a href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-11e5hP2gX4k/Tcl0bgqG1uI/AAAAAAAAC3k/hnj8MlOYzMA/s1600/wilderness+church.jpg\">\n</a></p>\nThat was more than five years ago. I have discovered new canyons and mesas of wilderness wisdom on this spiritual trek. I learned that I actually do have an anchoredness in the love of God. We are good. But what is lacking is trust and security with the people of God. I still have a bent inside of me to prove myself lovable and likeable. I want to show you how cool I am so you\'ll be my friend. This surfaced again in my life not too long ago. My family and I are now part of an irreverent, irreligious faith community of fierce no-bullsh*t-allowed sisters and brothers, and even in this freeing space of life, I managed to once again move in a spirit of codependent neediness for love and approval. Once again the spirit of epiphany rescued me and once again, I am relegated back to the dugout which is just fine with me. I am blackdog determined to let the people of God prove that I am a woman loved even if I never do a damn thing to pitch in and help with whatever church chores that are begging for volunteers. I am capable, oh-so-capable, but my capability will ruin me like that first drink a recovering alcoholic takes. I have to say no and recover from my churchalholicism.\n\nIt\'s liberating and unsettling. I suppose there might always be a bit of a limp in me to veer into unhealthy service mode. But I\'ve thrown the crutches of churchcentered living down into a gulley somewhere in the wild. I\'ll stay on my wilderness sojourn knowing that I\'m in fine company with other sun-kissed women and men who will enjoy my company without needing me to do anything for them.  This is life unfurled on the inside and out.\n\n&nbsp;','Letting Go of a Church-centered Life','','inherit','open','open','','144-revision-2','','','2011-10-18 14:38:47','2011-10-18 21:38:47','',144,'http://provoketive.com/2011/10/18/144-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(696,1,'2011-10-18 14:38:17','2011-10-18 21:38:17','','fence_cross','','inherit','open','open','','fence_cross','','','2011-10-18 14:38:17','2011-10-18 21:38:17','',144,'http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/fence_cross.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(146,1,'2011-05-17 16:50:21','2011-05-17 16:50:21','<a href=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Civitas_Logo.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-466\" title=\"Civitas_Logo\" src=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Civitas_Logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"94\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://civitaspress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Civitas Press</a> - Civitas was started to leverage a unique gap between traditional publishing and vanity press publishing. We partner with inspiring writers who want to develop their voice, create a compelling presentation, and get the word out. We are also creating a close-knit family network of writers that are working together to help each other develop a powerful platform.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Inspired_logo.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-467\" title=\"Inspired_logo\" src=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Inspired_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"107\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://inspired.civitaspress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Inspired</a> - You have a dream of finally publishing your manuscript. Inspired can help you realize that dream.  Publishing a book is also a complex journey, and we can help you navigate the process.  Inspired is a unique publishing label for authors wanting a expert partner in the process of publishing. 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We can put the three gospel texts in three columns and line up where they\'re the same and where they differ - it\'s a task that undergraduate theology students often do - maybe something you have done, too.\r\n\r\nThe Christmas story as it plays out in our heads or the many plays and movies, is one of the most \'harmonised\' parts of the Bible. Maybe we don\'t make it very clear in church, but the lines to the nativity play are not one of the bits that are found word-for-word in all four gospels (unlike, for example, the feeding of the five thousand: five loaves and two fishes etc.). If we break it down into the four tellings of the gospel story of Jesus in the New Testament, we can start to see the different priorities that the early church had towards the birth of Jesus and let it shape our Christmas just a little bit.\r\n\r\nFirst of all, Mark. His is the shortest gospel, it\'s punchy with action, miracles and mainly quite short teachings. The first 9 chapters focus on Jesus life in Galilee, then a chapter on the journey to Jerusalem, followed by 6 chapters on what happened in Jerusalem. This means 6 out of 16 chapters make up just one week of Jesus\' entire life - the weighting on the death and empty tomb of Jesus is very heavy in Mark.\r\n\r\nSo Christmas? Not at all. Mark, uniquely, does not mention Jesus\' origin and birth in any way. John the Baptist \'appeared\', and Jesus simply \'came\' to where he was baptizing. The only hint as to who Jesus is and where he comes from is the very first words: \'The beginning of the good news about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God,<sup> 2</sup> as it is written...\' (<a title=\"Mark 1 NIV - biblegateway.com\" href=\"http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201&amp;version=NIV\">Mark 1:1-2, NIV</a>) Mark sees Jesus\' coming as fulfilling Old Testament prophecy that the LORD, God himself, would come to visit his people Israel and bless them despite the trouble they were experiencing.\r\n\r\nIn Mark, Jesus is depicted as a true man, busy doing God\'s work. But Mark encourages us to dig a bit further, to understand the truth behind his words, the secret that Jesus seems to be hiding throughout the gospel, that he is both the Messiah, the man who God has anointed and sent to Israel and also God Himself, come to comfort and bless them and the world.\r\n\r\nBut Mark doesn\'t spell out the details of how, the mechanics or the crucial dates of Jesus birth, the mystery remains. The focus is on Jesus and what he did - no angels and no stars. So look out this Advent, this Christmas, see if Mark makes an appearance. Ask yourself why Mark doesn\'t make a big deal about Christmas. But feel free to enjoy Christmas - we\'ve got three more weeks of advent and three more gospels to go!','De-harmonizing Christmas - Part 1: Mark','','publish','open','open','','de-harmonizing-christmas-part-1-mark','','','2011-11-28 06:52:06','2011-11-28 14:52:06','',0,'http://provoketive.com/?p=2614',0,'post','',0),(2886,90,'2011-12-03 12:52:31','2011-12-03 20:52:31','','Advent Calendar','','inherit','open','open','','advent-calendar','','','2011-12-03 12:52:31','2011-12-03 20:52:31','',2885,'http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Advent-Calendar.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2881,43,'2011-12-10 08:09:06','2011-12-10 16:09:06','At the end of November, one of our local schools suffered a tragic loss.  A student died by suicide.  Although the people investigating have not officially stated whether bullying was involved, that was the conclusion reached by many of the student’s peers.  How sad that aggression in schools has progressed to the point that when a student ends her life, that is the first thing to come to mind.\r\n\r\nIt doesn’t make any difference whether bullying was the underlying cause.  That it has become epidemic  is far more alarming.  Bullying, and what form it takes, has been big news.  In light of that, it\'s not at all surprising that this video has been making the rounds*:\r\n\r\n[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdkNn3Ei-Lg[/youtube]\r\n\r\nThere seems to be a collective feeling of being at a loss for answers—even by school staff.  One reason may be that the shape of bullying has changed.  We want to imagine that bullies are easy to spot.  He’s the biggest kid on the playground, the one who always picks on smaller kids.  No one except the ones he’s terrified into the role will befriend him.  Maybe we even want to feel sorry for him, that he comes from a dangerous or frightening family situation himself.\r\n\r\nBut that isn’t always the way it works.  Bullies may come from “good” families.  They may go to church on Sundays.  They may be well-liked by parents, teachers, and other students.  There is no way to distinguish someone who is victimizing someone else unless you witness it happening.  They’re not just stealing kids’ lunch money anymore.\r\n\r\nSo the rest of us are left to deal with the tragic aftermath of adolescent cruelty.  We wonder if our own children are safe at school, or even whether they are the ones hurting others.  Those of us who work with the youth at our churches must find ways to help the students left behind after the dust clears.\r\n\r\nI spoke with the youth pastor at our church, asking if those of us working with the kids were going to discuss this issue as a team.  I mentioned that it was going to be tough for awhile, as we have students who knew the girl who died.  He said, “Imagine being a youth leader at a church where it’s one of your students.\"\r\n\r\nI answered, “What if one day we are?”\r\n\r\nBecause this latest suicide wasn’t halfway across the country, or even in another state.  It wasn’t even in another city.  It wasn\'t a stranger on the Internet, a kid we only know because he put his emotions in full view of everyone.  It was here, just a few miles from us, and it was a girl a lot of people knew.\r\n\r\nShouldn\'t that wreck us, that a young girl died?  Shouldn\'t that video of Jonah Mowry make us cry, and scream, and demand that something be done for these kids?  Shouldn\'t it break our hearts that human beings, created in the image of God, are being reduced to dust by the very words spoken to them?  Christians have a responsibility here.  We could sit back and wait for the schools to handle things.  We could expect that teachers will not tolerate disrespectful attitudes and behaviors in class.  We could even pray that our own kids know how much they are loved, even if they are the victims of bullying.  But that won’t solve the problem.  To be honest, I’m not sure what the solution is.  I do know that my duty to love makes it my business to help search for one.\r\n\r\nWe social justice Christians often talk about human dignity and how everyone is worthy of love and respect.  Why not start by honoring the dignity of our children and youth?\r\n\r\n*Be sure to read the update from Jonah Mowry, the young man, in the text under the video.','When Bullying Leads to Tragedy','','publish','open','open','','when-bullying-leads-to-tragedy','','','2011-12-09 08:10:22','2011-12-09 16:10:22','',0,'http://provoketive.com/?p=2881',0,'post','',2),(2417,0,'2011-11-21 07:40:40','2011-11-21 15:40:40','No qusetoin this is the place to get this info, thanks y\'all.\n<!--more-->\nAUTHOR: Lucka\nAUTHOR EMAIL: info@sickandwired.de\nAUTHOR URL: http://www.yahoo.com/\nSUBJECT: [Provoketive Magazine] The Trade\nIP: 109.230.216.60\nArray\n(\n    [Name] =&gt; Lucka\n    [Email] =&gt; info@sickandwired.de\n    [Website] =&gt; http://www.yahoo.com/\n    [Message] =&gt; No qusetoin this is the place to get this info, thanks y\'all.\n)\n','Lucka - 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The first time I did this, I didn\'t use gloves. My hands were soon covered with a fierce burning sensation that made it impossible to think about anything else. Then I did something very stupid. I itched my nose. This made me sneeze repeatedly. So my eyes got itchy, and before I knew it, I had spread the evil pepper juice to my eyes as well. Every time I tried to wash a part of me that was on fire, it made the burning spread. It took several painful experiences like this before I caved and made the very unmanly move of buying some latex gloves to handle my peppers with.\r\n\r\nPepper spray is made of concentrated capsaicin, the chemical that makes peppers hot. The difference between my painful pepper seed harvesting experience and what the UC Davis students felt who got pepper-sprayed last Friday is that they got a several hundred times more intense version of my pain sprayed deliberately into their faces from point-blank range. Though I\'ve never been pepper-sprayed, I have some idea based on my painful experience what pepper spray might do to a person physically. But what else does it do?\r\n\r\nWhat does pepper spray do to the person spraying it? Lieutenant John Pike is the police officer who sprayed the students. Since he\'s a cop on a college campus (and not in the hood), this might have been his first time using pepper spray. What does it do to your humanity when you watch other human beings suffer intense pain because of what you sprayed into their faces? I suspect it\'s different if you\'re caught in an adrenalin rush when someone physically attacks you. But wouldn\'t it mess with your head to spray people who are sitting on the ground and the most threatening thing they\'ve done is to link arms and try to hide their eyes underneath their sweater when they see your pepper spray can?\r\n\r\nWhen you do something like that, does the memory haunt you? Do you have bad dreams about it? Or do you change the story in your mind and conjure up a way that your victim was attacking you? This sounds like what UC Davis campus police chief Annette Spicuzza is <a href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/19/4066159/10-occupy-protesters-arrested.html\">trying to do</a>. She said the police were surrounded by a crowd and felt \"threatened.\" The only problem with that narrative is that, in the <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjnR7xET7Uo\">youtube video</a>, Lt. Pike actually <em>steps over</em> the seated protesters right before spraying them (so it\'s pretty hard to argue that they were an obstacle to his passage).\r\n\r\nThis brings us to another effect of pepper spray: the perception of the public who hear about the story. Since pepper spray is what you use on a guy in a dark alley who\'s about to mug you, the assumption is that if people get pepper sprayed, they must have done something violent. It\'s been interesting to watch university officials try to redefine the boundaries of nonviolence in response to to these incidents. UC Berkeley chancellor Robert Birgeneau <a href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/2011/11/10/campus-administrators-send-out-message-responding-to-occupy-cal-demonstrations/\">wrote</a> that \"linking arms and forming a human chain to prevent the police from gaining access to the tents... is not non-violent civil disobedience.\" So linking arms has now become violent? When most people reading these stories see pepper spray, they assume that whoever was on the receiving end must have deserved it, so nonviolence is allowed to be redefined in popular discourse.\r\n\r\nStill, there\'s one positive thing that happens to people who get pepper sprayed. When you suffer for what you believe in, it\'s the ultimate validation of your faith that inspires you to fight for your cause all the more zealously. This was what the Roman Empire could not understand about the early Christians. Every time they threw another one to the lions, they added lighter fluid to the fire they were trying to stomp out which eventually burned their empire down. The Jewish religious authorities had a similar experience in Acts 5:40-42:\r\n<blockquote><em>They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name. Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.</em></blockquote>\r\nThe flogging of the Sanhedrin made the apostles rejoice because it validated their faith. I\'m not saying it makes the UC Davis students\' opinions \"right\" just because they got pepper-sprayed. I\'m ambivalent about the Occupy protests in general, because I believe the way to change the world is through the long, boring process of Christian discipleship.\r\n\r\nBut I do wonder what it means that few Christians in our country today \"have been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name\" (unlike Christians in Pakistan and other places). What does it say about Christians that we <em>aren\'t</em> getting pepper-sprayed? Jesus tells His disciples that the world will hate them because it hated Him (John 15:18). I have really hated it every time I\'ve had pepper juice on my face, but maybe one day God will count me worthy of suffering for the name of Jesus.','What does pepper spray do?','','inherit','open','open','','2405-revision-2','','','2011-11-20 13:05:27','2011-11-20 21:05:27','',2405,'http://provoketive.com/2011/11/20/2405-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(239,1,'2011-10-02 16:08:27','2011-10-02 23:08:27','','bulldozer','','inherit','open','open','','bulldozer','','','2011-10-02 16:08:27','2011-10-02 23:08:27','',0,'http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/bulldozer.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2437,0,'2011-11-21 12:06:48','2011-11-21 20:06:48','Relationships, Spirituality, Theology\n<!--more-->\nAUTHOR: Tony J. Alicea\nAUTHOR EMAIL: tonyjalicea@gmail.com\nAUTHOR URL: http://www.tonyjalicea.com\nSUBJECT: Provoketive Magazine Writing For Provoketive\nIP: 216.52.207.101\nArray\n(\n    [Name] =&gt; Tony J. 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Alicea - 2011-11-21 12:06:48','','publish','open','open','','b2377e97f8b3a6d8996fad759d120506','','','2011-11-21 12:06:48','2011-11-21 20:06:48','',358,'http://provoketive.com/?post_type=feedback&p=2437',0,'feedback','',0),(2438,1,'2011-11-21 12:10:39','2011-11-21 20:10:39','','woman_portrait','','inherit','open','open','','woman_portrait','','','2011-11-21 12:10:39','2011-11-21 20:10:39','',2436,'http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/woman_portrait.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2440,1,'2011-11-21 12:12:04','2011-11-21 20:12:04','<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\nA little while ago, I had a very deep conversation with some friends about women in the church. One of my friends strongly holds to the idea of a male dominated society \"as God ordained\", and the other two hold the opposite view, that “women are equal.”  I grew up in a family that empowered women.  I always saw the female voice as valuable because it was valuable in my home, but not my church.  My mom was integral to the function of the church and yet she was never invited up front.  There was a quiet saying in the pews that men made the church\n\nI understand both positions and coming from a male perspective have wondered what it would be like to be a women in a male dominated society. The church has always been patriarchal. For some reason God chose to use men as the primary leaders in his mission of restoration. All the fathers of the faith are men (Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Joseph, Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc.). Jesus chose twelve men to be his disciples. Paul wrote the primary bulk of the New Testament epistles. The role of men in God’s mission is just obvious.\n\nBut women also do play an important role in his mission. None of those men would be where they were if it weren’t for their mothers. When I look at the women in Scripture, especially the women who followed Jesus, they seemed to get it more than the men. The first person to anoint Jesus was a woman. It was women who were with Jesus at the cross. It was a woman who sat at Jesus’ feet. It was a woman who first went to visit Jesus at the grave. Women just seem to get it before men sometimes.\n\nI don’t really want women to be equal in the traditional sense, always competing for the top rung, whatever that is. I don’t want women to be like me or like my buddies. I think when women try to be men, they miss the beauty of what it means to be feminine. The women I know who try to compete with men inevitably miss their own humanity. What I really want to know is why God chose to make us different. What is the real value of our differences?\n\nI didn’t choose how God lives out the mission of restoration. I didn’t set humanity and gender roles. God did. I also don’t want women to be reduced to subservient add-ons that serve a purpose when we need them sexually, or for care-taking purposes. So how to we find a way to coexist in harmony and congruence, especially in leadership? Maybe there’s a third way, a way that elevates women to the glorious gift that they are in our lives.\n\nI do want to see women the way love would see them. My friend asked, \"How do we discover and lift up each other’s humanity? How do we, as men, lift up women? I just know that love elevates.\"\n\nSo I’m left with a wonder that men, in our silly need to subjugate women, we may be missing something. Maybe women sometimes see it better than we do. And when they are pushed down we miss one of the real ways that God is speaking to us. I know that when I really need to listen to God, my wife is one of the first people I trust to speak honestly with me. She has been one of the primary ways I hear how my Heavenly Father is speaking to me. She has validated what I am feeling (even when I don’t like it) more often than I care to admit.\n\nMaybe if men learn to listen to women a little more, we’ll begin listening to a different voice that has always been available to us, a voice of reason and compassion. A voice of love. Maybe men have spent so much time pushing women down, we’ve missed one of God’s glorious ways of speaking to us, providing us wisdom when we most need it.\n\nSo my question is, “How do we find a way to lift women up in the church?”\n\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>','Women In The Church','','inherit','open','open','','2436-revision','','','2011-11-21 12:12:04','2011-11-21 20:12:04','',2436,'http://provoketive.com/2011/11/21/2436-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(2431,57,'2011-11-23 09:00:18','2011-11-23 17:00:18','Like millions of others, I watched a disturbing video last weekend of UC Davis students getting pepper-sprayed by campus police lieutenant John Pike. The most surreal part of the video was the casual nonchalance with which Lt. Pike sprayed painful toxins into students\' faces. It was as though he were spraying Roundup in a garden, and it made me think of an experience I had in my garden.\n\nI like to harvest my own jalapeño and poblano seeds. The first time, I didn\'t use gloves. My hands were soon covered with a burning that made it impossible to think about anything else. Then I did something very stupid. I itched my nose. This made me sneeze repeatedly. So my eyes got itchy, and before I knew it, I had spread the evil pepper juice to my eyes as well. Every time I tried to wash a part of me that was on fire, it made the burning spread. It took several painful experiences before I caved and made the very unmanly move of buying some latex gloves to handle my peppers with.\n\nPepper spray is made of concentrated capsaicin, the chemical that makes peppers hot. The difference between my painful pepper seed harvesting experience and what the UC Davis students felt who got pepper-sprayed last Friday is that they got a several hundred times more intense version of my pain sprayed deliberately into their faces from point-blank range. Though I\'ve never been pepper-sprayed, I have some idea based on my painful experience what pepper spray might do to a person physically. But what else does it do?\n\nWhat does pepper spray do to the person spraying it? Since Lt. Pike is a cop on a college campus (and not in the hood), this might have been his first time using pepper spray. What does it do to your humanity when you watch other human beings suffer intense pain because of what you sprayed into their faces? I suspect it\'s different if you\'re caught in an adrenalin rush when someone physically attacks you. Wouldn\'t it mess with your head to spray people who are sitting on the ground and the most threatening thing they\'ve done is to link arms and try to hide their eyes underneath their sweater when they see your pepper spray can?\n\nWhen you do something like that, does the memory haunt you? Do you have bad dreams about it? Or do you change the story in your mind and conjure up a way that your victim was attacking you? This sounds like what UC Davis campus police chief Annette Spicuzza is <a href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/19/4066159/10-occupy-protesters-arrested.html\">trying to do</a>. She said the police were surrounded by a crowd and felt \"threatened.\" The only problem with that narrative is that, in the <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjnR7xET7Uo\">youtube video</a>, Lt. Pike actually <em>steps over</em> the seated protesters right before spraying them (so it\'s pretty hard to argue that they were an obstacle to his passage).\n\n<a href=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/lt_pike_spraying.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2447\" src=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/lt_pike_spraying-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" /></a>This brings us to another effect of pepper spray: the perception of the public who hear about the story. Since pepper spray is what you use on a guy in a dark alley who\'s about to mug you, the assumption is that if people get pepper sprayed, they must have done something violent. It\'s been interesting to watch university officials try to redefine the boundaries of nonviolence in response to to these incidents. UC Berkeley chancellor Robert Birgeneau <a href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/2011/11/10/campus-administrators-send-out-message-responding-to-occupy-cal-demonstrations/\">wrote</a> that \"linking arms and forming a human chain to prevent the police from gaining access to the tents... is not non-violent civil disobedience.\" So linking arms has now become violent? When most people reading these stories see pepper spray, they assume that whoever was on the receiving end must have deserved it, so nonviolence is allowed to be redefined in popular discourse.\n\nStill, there\'s one positive thing that happens to people who get pepper sprayed. When you suffer for what you believe in, it\'s the ultimate validation of your faith that inspires you to fight for your cause all the more zealously. This was what the Roman Empire could not understand about the early Christians. Every time they threw another one to the lions, they added lighter fluid to the fire they were trying to stomp out which eventually burned their empire down. The Jewish religious authorities had a similar experience in Acts 5:40-42:\n<blockquote><em>They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name. Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.</em></blockquote>\nThe flogging of the Sanhedrin made the apostles rejoice because it validated their faith. I\'m not saying it makes the UC Davis students\' opinions \"right\" just because they got pepper-sprayed. I\'m ambivalent about the Occupy protests in general, because I believe the way to change the world is through the long, boring process of Christian discipleship.\n\nBut I do wonder what it means that few Christians in our country today \"have been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name\" (unlike Christians in Pakistan and other places). What does it say about Christians that we <em>aren\'t</em> getting pepper-sprayed? Jesus tells His disciples that the world will hate us because it hated Him (John 15:18). I have really hated it every time I\'ve had pepper juice on my face, but maybe one day God will count me worthy of suffering for the name of Jesus.','What Does Pepper Spray Do?','','inherit','open','open','','2405-autosave','','','2011-11-23 09:00:18','2011-11-23 17:00:18','',2405,'http://provoketive.com/2011/11/21/2405-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(242,1,'2011-10-02 16:11:14','2011-10-02 23:11:14','','road_sky','','inherit','open','open','','road_sky','','','2011-10-02 16:11:14','2011-10-02 23:11:14','',0,'http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/road_sky.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2423,24,'2011-11-21 10:51:34','2011-11-21 18:51:34','','Cloud holder','','inherit','open','open','','cloud-holder','','','2011-11-21 10:51:34','2011-11-21 18:51:34','',1975,'http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Cloud-holder.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2424,24,'2011-11-21 10:50:37','2011-11-21 18:50:37','God decided He was tired of humanity, tired of the incessant selfish requests. He called His angels in for advice. \"I would like to go somewhere were these humans will not find me,\" God said to the angels. One angel spoke up, \"Hide on the highest mountain, they will not find you there.\" Another angel said, \"The bottom of the deepest ocean.\" One angel shouted, \"The dark side of the moon, they cannot see you there.\" God not satisfied that these suggestions would hide Him, He summoned His wisest angel and asked him, \"Where can I hide so that these humans will not find me?\" The angel smiled and replied, \"hide in their hearts, for they fear to look within.\"\r\n\r\nWith the worlds current events getting so much attention and the endless banter between politicians, governments and corporations it may appear that our world has lost its mind. One can find oneself lost it trying to fix all sorts of systems and entities to make the world a safe place to live. I would like to point out a view of things that allows one to loose interest in getting something from this world. Instead I will point to a Reality the demands nothings, asks for nothing, it simply is what it is. For some this is to simple, or boring. They are far more interested in fixing others and entertaining themselves in the drama of their lives.\r\n\r\nOne can liken the addiction we have to the drama of this world as to walking into a room of people watching their favorite soap opera. At the climax you walk up and turn the TV off. Now just imagine the response. Anger, yelling, pushing and shoving are likely effects of disconnecting people from their entertainment. Another example would be to walking into a crowded bar on a playoff night, turn the power off just prior to the end of a close game. Do you see the same reactions? One does not have to condemn this addiction we see to prevalent in society, one just at some point to decide whether or not to continue to participate in it.\r\n\r\nThose of you who were raised in any sort of religion, culture/ethnicity, sports team loyalists, soap opera fanatics upbringing were usually told what to believe and why. Even if you were not told directly it was obvious by the behavior of your family.  \"We are Bronco fans because we live in Colorado.\" We hate the Raisers and Chargers with a passion!\"  We are Catholics?Protestants/ Buddhists ect because we have been this faith for generations.\r\n\r\nHow do we know if anything is true? Can our thoughts, perceptions, families beliefs and customs be trusted as Truth?\r\n\r\n<strong>\"Man is intrinsically innocent because he can only choose what he perceives to be good.\" - Socrates</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/YoungOldWoman.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1976\" src=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/YoungOldWoman-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" /></a>Is this your wife or mother-in-law?\r\nWhich perception is real?\r\nDoes one negate the other?\r\nDo both exist simultaneously?\r\n\r\nI John 2: 9-11 Anyone who claims to live in God\'s light and hates a brother or sister is still in the dark. It\'s the person who loves brother and sister who dwells in God\'s light and doesn\'t block the light from others. But whoever hates is still in the dark, stumbles around in the dark, doesn\'t know which end is up, blinded by the darkness.\r\n\r\nLook around the room you are in. Is it possible to see the light? Or can you only see that with which the light illuminates?\r\n\r\nA persons way of speaking, behavior and thought process simply reveals what they are aligned with. Light doe not judge or condemn, its simply reveals what is. God is light and in Him there is no shadow or darkness. So evil is not the opposite or antithesis of God, but simply his absence. Perception is then extremely subjective.\r\n\r\nOur perceptions are derived from a mind that searches for the meaning of what it perceives or in other words identifies with. If the mind believes something has value it then desires it. Thoughts and feelings arise from desire, and the mind desires what it values.\r\n\r\nOur minds as children are innocent, like a brand new Mac Book Pro without any software. We then observe our families our culture our entertainment and we pick up the software that runs our minds value system which is called perception.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Perception is Deception','','inherit','open','open','','1975-revision-13','','','2011-11-21 10:50:37','2011-11-21 18:50:37','',1975,'http://provoketive.com/2011/11/21/1975-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(245,1,'2011-10-02 16:15:52','2011-10-02 23:15:52','','events','','inherit','open','open','','events-2','','','2011-10-02 16:15:52','2011-10-02 23:15:52','',0,'http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/events.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2413,0,'2011-11-21 03:27:35','2011-11-21 11:27:35','What a joy to find someone else who tihkns this way.\n<!--more-->\nAUTHOR: Gertrude\nAUTHOR EMAIL: zallen@gayusapages.com\nAUTHOR URL: http://www.bing.com/\nSUBJECT: [Provoketive Magazine] The Kingdom of God and the Death of Gadhafi\nIP: 109.230.216.60\nArray\n(\n    [Name] =&gt; Gertrude\n    [Email] =&gt; zallen@gayusapages.com\n    [Website] =&gt; http://www.bing.com/\n    [Message] =&gt; What a joy to find someone else who tihkns this way.\n)\n','Gertrude - 2011-11-21 03:27:35','','publish','open','open','','06cd651578312d9b82c571fe10c1fac2','','','2011-11-21 03:27:35','2011-11-21 11:27:35','',835,'http://provoketive.com/?post_type=feedback&p=2413',0,'feedback','',0),(248,1,'2011-10-02 16:23:34','2011-10-02 23:23:34','','art','','inherit','open','open','','art','','','2011-10-02 16:23:34','2011-10-02 23:23:34','',0,'http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/art.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2408,57,'2011-11-20 13:04:56','2011-11-20 21:04:56','I like to harvest my own jalapeño and poblano seeds from my garden. The first time I did this, I didn\'t use gloves. My hands were soon covered with a fierce burning sensation that made it impossible to think about anything else. Then I did something very stupid. I itched my nose. This made me sneeze repeatedly. So my eyes got itchy, and before I knew it, I had spread the evil pepper juice to my eyes as well. Every time I tried to wash a part of me that was on fire, it made the burning spread. It took several painful experiences like this before I caved and made the very unmanly move of buying some latex gloves to handle my peppers with.\n\nPepper spray is made of concentrated capsaicin, the chemical that makes peppers hot. The difference between my painful pepper seed harvesting experience and what the UC Davis students felt who got pepper-sprayed last Friday is that they got a several hundred times more intense version of my pain sprayed deliberately into their faces from point-blank range. Though I\'ve never been pepper-sprayed, I have some idea based on my painful experience what pepper spray might do to a person physically. But what else does it do?\n\nWhat does pepper spray do to the person spraying it? Lieutenant John Pike is the police officer who sprayed the students. Since he\'s a cop on a college campus (and not in the hood), this might have been his first time using pepper spray. What does it do to your humanity when you watch other human beings suffer intense pain because of what you sprayed into their faces? I suspect it\'s different if you\'re caught in an adrenalin rush when someone physically attacks you. But wouldn\'t it mess with your head to spray people who are sitting on the ground and the most threatening thing they\'ve done is to link arms and try to hide their eyes underneath their sweater when they see your pepper spray can?\n\nWhen you do something like that, does the memory haunt you? Do you have bad dreams about it? Or do you change the story in your mind and conjure up a way that your victim was attacking you? This sounds like what UC Davis campus police chief Annette Spicuzza is <a href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/19/4066159/10-occupy-protesters-arrested.html\">trying to do</a>. She said the police were surrounded by a crowd and felt \"threatened.\" The only problem with that narrative is that, in the <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjnR7xET7Uo\">youtube video</a>, Lt. Pike actually <em>steps over</em> the seated protesters right before spraying them (so it\'s pretty hard to argue that they were an obstacle to his passage).\n\nThis brings us to another effect of pepper spray: the perception of the public who hear about the story. Since pepper spray is what you use on a guy in a dark alley who\'s about to mug you, the assumption is that if people get pepper sprayed, they must have done something violent. It\'s been interesting to watch university officials try to redefine the boundaries of nonviolence in response to to these incidents. UC Berkeley chancellor Robert Birgeneau <a href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/2011/11/10/campus-administrators-send-out-message-responding-to-occupy-cal-demonstrations/\">wrote</a> that \"linking arms and forming a human chain to prevent the police from gaining access to the tents... is not non-violent civil disobedience.\" So linking arms has now become violent? When most people reading these stories see pepper spray, they assume that whoever was on the receiving end must have deserved it, so nonviolence is allowed to be redefined in popular discourse.\n\nStill, there\'s one positive thing that happens to people who get pepper sprayed. When you suffer for what you believe in, it\'s the ultimate validation of your faith that inspires you to fight for your cause all the more zealously. This was what the Roman Empire could not understand about the early Christians. Every time they threw another one to the lions, they added lighter fluid to the fire they were trying to stomp out which eventually burned their empire down. The Jewish religious authorities had a similar experience in Acts 5:40-42:\n<blockquote><em>They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name. Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.</em></blockquote>\nThe flogging of the Sanhedrin made the apostles rejoice because it validated their faith. I\'m not saying it makes the UC Davis students\' opinions \"right\" just because they got pepper-sprayed. I\'m ambivalent about the Occupy protests in general, because I believe the way to change the world is through the long, boring process of Christian discipleship.\n\nBut I do wonder what it means that few Christians in our country today \"have been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name\" (unlike Christians in Pakistan and other places). What does it say about Christians that we <em>aren\'t</em> getting pepper-sprayed? Jesus tells His disciples that the world will hate them because it hated Him (John 15:18). I have really hated it every time I\'ve had pepper juice on my face, but maybe one day God will count me worthy of suffering for the name of Jesus.','What does pepper spray do?','','inherit','open','open','','2405-revision','','','2011-11-20 13:04:56','2011-11-20 21:04:56','',2405,'http://provoketive.com/2011/11/20/2405-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(2409,12,'2011-11-23 09:18:23','2011-11-23 17:18:23','As a Razorback fan,<a href=\"http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7261953/arkansas-freshman-tight-end-garrett-uekman-dies-19\"> I read with sadness as Garrett Uekman</a>, tight end for the #3 ranked Arkansas team was found dead in his dorm room.\r\n\r\nI\'m not sad because I\'m a Razorback fan. I\'m sad because a young life is gone.\r\n\r\nI\'m sad because when I was a college junior, my roommate, Scott Cook and four other students from my university were traveling back to school, they each fell asleep and were killed in a car accident. They were on their way back from a mission trip.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/te.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2410\" title=\"te\" src=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/te.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"230\" /></a>I\'m sad because I know that hundreds of students will wake up asking for meaning. I know they will be weeping, wondering why their friend won\'t be there tomorrow. His roommate, who I identify with the most, will suffer more than anyone on campus, crying out in his heart, looking for answers.\r\n\r\nI know that in the next week, his parents will be at his funeral, facing hundreds who will be offering their condolences. People will stop by their house offering fried chicken, pies, cakes and side dishes. The pastor will give an amazing eulogy, but it will be muffled by the sounds of a life called short.\r\n\r\nWhen two weeks go by, the vast majority of the world will have forgotten the life of Garrett Uekman. His parents will still be clutching his high school trophies and his senior picture. Those who loved him most will be left with, \"Why?\"\r\n\r\nThe answer to that question may never come.\r\n\r\nI do know one thing. After losing a college roommate, a father and a mother to sudden accidents, I can tell you this - it\'s not about us. Things happen and they happen fast. Take time to grieve. Take time to mourn. Weep as many tears as your body will allow. And then, when you think you\'ve cried as much as you can - cry some more.\r\n\r\nDon\'t try to make sense of any of it. But know this, people of faith - God is there. When there are answers to be found in our weak hearts, He will provide them. Don\'t expect them soon, but know that He will see us through the worst of times. But know those times may last a while. And know that He is worth the wait.','When Life Gets Called Short','','publish','open','open','','when-life-gets-called-short','','','2011-11-23 09:20:02','2011-11-23 17:20:02','',0,'http://provoketive.com/?p=2409',0,'post','',0),(2410,12,'2011-11-20 21:48:23','2011-11-21 05:48:23','','te','','inherit','open','open','','te','','','2011-11-20 21:48:23','2011-11-21 05:48:23','',2409,'http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/te.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2411,12,'2011-11-20 21:47:26','2011-11-21 05:47:26','As a Razorback fan, I read with sadness as Garrett Uekman, tight end for the #3 ranked Arkansas team was found dead in his dorm room.\n\nI\'m not sad because I\'m a Razorback fan. I\'m sad because a young life is gone.\n\nI\'m sad because when I was a college junior, my roomate, Scott Cook and four other students from my university were traveling back to school, they each fell asleep and were killed in a car accident. They were on their way back from a mission trip.\n\nI\'m sad because I know that hundreds of students will wake up asking for meaning. I know they will be weeping, wondering why their friend won\'t be there tomorrow. His roommate, who I identify with the most, will suffer more than anyone on campus, crying out in his heart, looking for answers.\n\nI know that in the next week, his parents will be at his funeral, facing hundreds who will be offering their condolences. People will stop by their house offering fried chicken, pies, cakes and side dishes. The pastor will give an amazing eulogy, but it will be muffled by the sounds of a life called short.\n\nWhen two weeks go by, the vast majority of the world will have forgotten the life of Garrett Uekman. His parents will still be clutching his high school trophies and his senior picture. Those who loved him most will be left with, \"Why?\"\n\nThe answer to that question may never come.\n\nI do know one thing. After losing a college roommate, a father and a mother to sudden accidents, I can tell you this - it\'s not about us. Things happen and they happen fast. Take time to grieve. Take time to mourn. Weep as many tears as your body will allow. And then, when you think you\'ve cried as much as you can - cry some more.\n\nDon\'t try to make sense of any of it. But know this, people of faith - God is there. When there are answers to be found in our weak hearts, He will provide them. Don\'t exp','When Life Gets Called Short','','inherit','open','open','','2409-revision','','','2011-11-20 21:47:26','2011-11-21 05:47:26','',2409,'http://provoketive.com/2011/11/20/2409-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(2412,12,'2011-11-20 21:48:41','2011-11-21 05:48:41','As a Razorback fan, I read with sadness as Garrett Uekman, tight end for the #3 ranked Arkansas team was found dead in his dorm room.\r\n\r\nI\'m not sad because I\'m a Razorback fan. I\'m sad because a young life is gone.\r\n\r\nI\'m sad because when I was a college junior, my roomate, Scott Cook and four other students from my university were traveling back to school, they each fell asleep and were killed in a car accident. They were on their way back from a mission trip.\r\n\r\nI\'m sad because I know that hundreds of students will wake up asking for meaning. I know they will be weeping, wondering why their friend won\'t be there tomorrow. His roommate, who I identify with the most, will suffer more than anyone on campus, crying out in his heart, looking for answers.\r\n\r\nI know that in the next week, his parents will be at his funeral, facing hundreds who will be offering their condolences. People will stop by their house offering fried chicken, pies, cakes and side dishes. The pastor will give an amazing eulogy, but it will be muffled by the sounds of a life called short.\r\n\r\nWhen two weeks go by, the vast majority of the world will have forgotten the life of Garrett Uekman. His parents will still be clutching his high school trophies and his senior picture. Those who loved him most will be left with, \"Why?\"\r\n\r\nThe answer to that question may never come.\r\n\r\nI do know one thing. After losing a college roommate, a father and a mother to sudden accidents, I can tell you this - it\'s not about us. Things happen and they happen fast. Take time to grieve. Take time to mourn. Weep as many tears as your body will allow. And then, when you think you\'ve cried as much as you can - cry some more.\r\n\r\nDon\'t try to make sense of any of it. But know this, people of faith - God is there. When there are answers to be found in our weak hearts, He will provide them. Don\'t expect them soon, but know that He will see us through the worst of times. But know those times may last a while. And know that He is worth the wait.','When Life Gets Called Short','','inherit','open','open','','2409-revision-2','','','2011-11-20 21:48:41','2011-11-21 05:48:41','',2409,'http://provoketive.com/2011/11/20/2409-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(2395,1,'2011-11-20 09:08:29','2011-11-20 17:08:29','','sky_color','','inherit','open','open','','sky_color','','','2011-11-20 09:08:29','2011-11-20 17:08:29','',2333,'http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/sky_color.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2396,1,'2011-11-16 21:32:58','2011-11-17 05:32:58','<a href=\"http://www.life.com/hdgallery/66721/image/ugc1273001/lifes-20-worst-covers#index/1\">Life Magazine published it\'s 20 most regrettable covers online recently</a>. Some of them were simply awful. It was a fun way for them to look back on some of their past mistakes and call themselves out for poor oversight and design. They basically said in an enjoyable manner, \"We messed up and here are our awful mistakes for everyone to see.\"\r\n\r\nIt made me reflect for a moment. I have a lot of moments in my life that I dwell on from my past that were not so good. They are moments my mind drifts back to that I cling to selfishly, wishing they would be wiped away. Some of them are regrettable moments that others will remember where I made a terrible error. Other moments are things that have no history besides being written on the pages of my mind. But all of them I still remember in vivid color, like the cover of a magazine.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a really stupid one. When I was in college, we had intramural flag football. One game, we were playing against a team that we really didn\'t like. In fact, I couldn\'t stand one of the guys on the offensive line. I\'m not a big guy at all, but during one play, I got overly aggressive and gave him a cheap shot when the play was over. It was unnecessary. What made it really memorable was when the team ran a play to my side the next time and three of them planted me on my butt.\r\n\r\nI stewed about it for a week. Well, more than a week. Fifteen years. It still makes me angry. Angry that I let my emotions get the best of me. Angry that I got knocked down. And it was not one of my proudest moments. But it\'s still there.\r\n\r\nIs it that big of a deal? Yes. No.\r\n\r\nIt\'s one of the covers of my life I\'d publish if I were doing \"regrettable moments\" from my life. There are more. A lot more. Worse moments. We all have them.\r\n\r\nMaybe we had a chance to help someone in need. Maybe we turned our back on a friend. Maybe we said something we couldn\'t take back. Maybe we did something we have never told anyone. And we hold onto it forever.\r\n\r\nWhile doing interviews <a href=\"http://store.civitaspress.com/books/284\">for my upcoming book</a>, I was interviewing a fellow fallen pastor. He said one of the most remarkable things I\'ve ever heard. I asked him something along the lines of, \"What do you wish had happened differently?\"\r\n\r\nHe didn\'t hesitate. He said, <em>\"The past can be slavery and the future can be idolatry. Don\'t look back, don\'t look too far forward or you\'ll miss what\'s happening right now where the kingdom and spirit are.\"</em>\r\n\r\nThat gave me tremendous peace. There\'s a time to put away the horrendous covers of our past failures and least memorable moments. Sure, it\'s hard to forget them when they\'ve been published and put out there for the world to see. But that doesn\'t mean we have to keep rereading the same material over and over again, reminding ourselves of the past.\r\n\r\nThere\'s \"Life\" going on now that demands to be cherished and lived.','Viewing the Past in Vivid, Regrettable Color','','inherit','open','open','','2333-revision-4','','','2011-11-16 21:32:58','2011-11-17 05:32:58','',2333,'http://provoketive.com/2011/11/16/2333-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(2391,101,'2011-11-19 14:37:41','2011-11-19 22:37:41','I hid for a long time.\n\nMy closet was decorated with Bible verses and well-worn answers to complex issues.  It was wrapped tightly in caution tape that said \'un-orthodox viewpoints beware - I am a warrior of The Truth.\' Rays of confidence flowed from underneath the door and through the keyhole, anywhere that unwanted questions might slip in. And there I was inside, truly confident in many aspects but utterly terrified of my own doubts in many others - working knobs and buttons frantically like the little man from Kansas behind the curtain. I was anxious daily that a little dog might pull away my covering and expose me as a regular girl who loved Jesus but feared the wrath of the Lord.\n\nIt was through therapy (Google \'scrupulosity\'), followed by emotional healing prayer in the hands of healthy Christians that I slowly began to emerge. It was a startling encounter with God that  realized that my questions weren\'t so alarming to God and that my definition of grace was out of whack (grace came when I earned it by proving my good-little-girl-ness to the Almighty).\n\nOne day when I was fretting especially hard about something. In my spirit I was on my knees pleading whatever my case was (perhaps why I liked secular music or was working so hard on my screenplay instead of praying or reading my Bible).  In mid whine I felt like God grabbed me by the shoulders and gave me a shake.\n\n\'Stand up, child,\" He said.\n\nI blinked.\n\n\'Huh?\' I stammered.\n\n\'I\'m not mad at you for anything at all\'\n\n\'You\'re not?\'\n\nOf course not. You are making war where there is peace...I can\'t do anything with you in this state\'.\n\n\'But we\'re supposed to be on our knees worshiping you.\'\n\n\'I don\'t want worship like this - like Wormtail, groveling and begging for fear of retribution. Don\'t you know who I am?\'\n\nI was  simultaneously shocked that apparently God read \'Harry Potter\' (one of my favorites) and offended that he had compared me to the sniveling, cowardly servant of the Dark Lord in the story. But He had hit the nail on the head. I was acting like a coward.\n\nIn answer to His latter question, at one point, early on in childhood, I did know who He was. I knew Him as love, tenderness and grace. Somewhere I had gotten lost and hid away in that closet of false confidence, fear had taken root. Maybe it was legalistic friends, maybe it was one too many Chick Tracts. Whatever the culprit, God had finally come knocking. Well, probably he had been knocking. It might be better said that he had given up knocking and was now banging. He put the first cracks in the walls of my safe theological closet. I didn\'t have Him neatly figured out. My questions were not evil. It was OK to be exactly who I was.\n\nYou\'re acting like Wormtail\'\n\nJesus is True. That\'s the one thing I know for sure. Because I\'ve met Him. Beyond that, it\'s all just commentary (props to Rob Bell).\n\nSome random thoughts on life, love and faith from a girl who\'s just calling it like she sees it and who is done apologizing and hyper-spiritualizing her way through the journey.\n\nThere are beautiful Christians who aren\'t Conservative Republicans.\n\nMy daily struggles and questions and processing does not preclude me from being a good prayer minister.\n\nI can be a Charismatic without subscribing carte blanche to Pentecostal traditions.\n\nIt\'s OK to enjoy the love I have been given.\n\nEveryone is a hypocrite about something.\n\nChances are I am more annoyed at myself than God is.\n\nThe Bible is not an object to be worshiped.\n\nThe One whose life and breath flow through the Biblical canon is the source of all life and worthy of worship.\n\nI love being a woman.\n\nI love my ta-tas. They are small but cute.\n\nIt\'s OK to feel sexy even if I\'m not married.\n\nIt is impossible to shackle someone to rules and still call them free.\n\nI believe in having a personal relationship with each member of the God-head -Papa, Jesus and Holy Spirit. This is where wisdom grows.\n\nThe Holy Spirit is feminine.\n\nGod is masculine\n\nJesus was a male human being who carried both masculine and feminine traits in perfect balance.\n\nNeither male nor female is more important than the other. They were created equally in the image of God.\n\nI have learned that everyone at any given time is probably doing or thinking something that is forbidden in the Bible. It is like trying to plug up a broken dam with your finger. Best plan: Give up and let Jesus\' work on the cross be enough.\n\nI wonder if we sometimes can\'t see Jesus past the \'word\'.\n\nI love football.\n\nFundamentalism can be in error.\n\nStripping Scripture of all mystical notion and completely \'humanizing\' it can also be in error.\n\nFinding The \"Radical Middle\" is my quest.\n\nI think homosexuals are treated like lepers and Samaritans by many evangelicals. I think this is dishonoring and ignorant. I repent for my former stances on this issue.\n\nI think I can learn from anyone.\n\n\"Spirit-filled\" people sometimes scare me and make me wonder just what spirit they are filled with. I have scared myself.\n\nThe cake is a lie.\n\nDiscernment is best used to discern the presence of God, not the presence of demons.\n\nTangling with demons has become an arrogant sport in some deliverance ministries.\n\nI choose not to focus on demons. They\'ve already lost. Jesus gave me the keys.\n\nGod will always be more tender, merciful and graceful than humans.\n\nI have been a joker and a smoker but never a midnight toker.\n\nThe F word is my favorite.\n\nI greatly respect but don\'t always agree with the Apostle Paul. And I don\'t think that is blasphemous. I think he had issues just like the rest of us.\n\nSpeaking in tongues is cool.\n\nAnimals have souls and they go to heaven.\n\nThe post-flood covenant was made with the people and the animals (Genesis 9:10 - check it).\n\nEnd-Times stuff annoys me. I think it is by and large a distraction.\n\nLamborghinis are sexy cars.\n\nThe idea of \'crucifying my flesh\' is abhorrent to me. To try and do what was already done for me dishonors Christ and steals His joy.\n\nYou could destroy all the Bibles on the planet and still not destroy the Word of God.\n\nTo live in freedom with my focus on receiving and sharing the humanly impossible love of God is what Jesus asks of me. All other ground is sinking sand.\n\nIf everyone loved the way Jesus did the \'second coming\' (or is it the third?) would be upon us.\n\nTo live that way is hard. I don\'t know how to do it. And that is what makes religion so tempting. It makes me feel in control.\n\nEven still, Jesus take the wheel.','Coming out...Of the theological closet.','','inherit','open','open','','2390-revision','','','2011-11-19 14:37:41','2011-11-19 22:37:41','',2390,'http://provoketive.com/2011/11/19/2390-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(2434,0,'2011-11-21 11:39:46','2011-11-21 19:39:46','Morgan, I love your new post, but it needs a hook in the beginning the ties it all together.  You\'re drawing a conclusion that leads to UC Davis, so perhaps open with a point about it.\n<!--more-->\nAUTHOR: Jonathan Brink\nAUTHOR EMAIL: jb@thriven.org\nAUTHOR URL: http://jonathanbrink.com\nSUBJECT: [Provoketive Magazine] Eroticizing the Cross\nIP: 76.215.211.128\nArray\n(\n    [Name] =&gt; Jonathan Brink\n    [Email] =&gt; jb@thriven.org\n    [Website] =&gt; http://jonathanbrink.com\n    [Message] =&gt; Morgan, I love your new post, but it needs a hook in the beginning the ties it all together.  You\'re drawing a conclusion that leads to UC Davis, so perhaps open with a point about it.\n)\n','Jonathan Brink - 2011-11-21 11:39:46','','publish','open','open','','9b84ed16a9c04fba0a30fbb8bb1f5ee4','','','2011-11-21 11:39:46','2011-11-21 19:39:46','',1852,'http://provoketive.com/?post_type=feedback&p=2434',0,'feedback','',0),(2980,1,'2011-12-30 08:00:30','2011-12-30 16:00:30','[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mII6-IyaT3o[/youtube]\r\n\r\nI love satire for its capacity to speak some remarkable truths in really funny ways.  Mr Diety is definitely satire and it often takes on the philosophical and apparent humorous tensions within Christianity.  It\'s not always fair, and often it borders on mean, but sometimes it really calls out the issues.\r\n\r\nIn this absurd take on the relationship of the Trinity, Mr. Diety explores the relationship of Jesus to God. You can hear the influence of Abbot and Costello\'s <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOXdpO36Ojw\" target=\"_blank\">Who\'s On First</a>, and they even reference it during the skit.\r\n\r\nAt 2:50 the skit turns to the meaning of the set up.\r\n<blockquote>Jesus: What\'s the point of this?\r\n\r\nMr. Diety: The point is to save the human\'s from the original sin and to show, you know, my love.\r\n\r\nJesus: To show <em>your</em> love?\r\n\r\nMr. Diety: Yeah, by sacrificing myself, in the person of you, to myself.  That\'s loving.\r\n\r\nJesus: Wait, don\'t you mean sacrificing me to you?\r\n\r\nMr. Diety: Look this is a beautiful thing I\'m doing to satisfy my own sense of unyielding justice.</blockquote>\r\nThis skit strays at this point from the traditional evangelical story, suggesting Adam didn\'t really exist, but at this point it doesn\'t matter.  The skit has shown the tension.  Is God demanding the death of his own son to appease his own sense of divine justice.\r\n\r\nAs strange as it may sound, this is the tension of our Western understanding of the Gospel.  The meaning of the Gospel is found in our understanding of the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atonement_in_Christianity\" target=\"_blank\">atonement</a>, or why did Jesus die on the cross? It describes how humanity is reconciled with God.  Although there are many theories of atonement in history, this theory (also called subsitutionary and later penal substitutionary atonement) underlines the historical basis for much of our Western theology, especially within the Evangelical community.  It\'s the story of the Gospel and provides a basis for our belief systems.\r\n\r\nAnd in a postmodern age, people are calling out a big \"Fail\" to the idea. The theory of justice doesn\'t seem all that loving.  Some would even suggest that it makes God a child killer. And if so, what kind of God would do that?  How does this understanding of justice reconcile with love?  All Mr. Diety is doing is giving voice to that tension.  And when we don\'t like reflecting on our own understanding of the Gospel, one that holds profound implications for our understanding of God\'s character and the framework for justice, someone else will.  If we want to be honest about our own faith, it requires wrestling with these tensions.\r\n\r\nWhat if there was a different way of understanding the cross, one that reconciles with our understanding of love and justice and the event that unfold?  What if God is not satisfying a divine sense of cosmic justice (or even paying a <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransom_theory_of_atonement\" target=\"_blank\">Ransom to Satan</a>), but instead God is meeting our warped demands for proof that we are worth it, that <a href=\"http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201:31&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\">we are still good</a>.  In other words, the cross is saying, \"This is how far I will go to show you that <a href=\"http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201:31&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\">you are good</a>. I will meet your demands for sacrifice and give you my son.\" Because if we listen to the actual story, it is WE who are making the demands at the cross for justice.  It is WE who need someone to pay the price for us.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Catalogue_Discovering.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2988\" title=\"Catalogue_Discovering\" src=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Catalogue_Discovering-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"108\" height=\"156\" /></a>When I tell people this idea, there first thought is to say, \"Let me think about that so I can understand it.\" It\'s so simple but it doesn\'t let humanity off the hook for sin.  Sin is actually the process of getting the original question in the Tree of Knowledge wrong, which asks, are you good or evil? Justice is then God revealing the extent of sin (our demand for a substitute) and satisfying that demand through love (by offering life).  But it is us who are making the demands.\r\n\r\nFor a detailed walk through of this idea you can read, <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Discovering-God-Imagination-Jonathan-Brink/dp/0615513956\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Discovering The God Imagination: Reconstructing A Whole New Christianity</em></a> (Civitas Press, July 2011).','The Tension Of The Gospel','','publish','open','open','','the-tension-of-the-gospel','','','2011-12-27 12:14:04','2011-12-27 20:14:04','',0,'http://provoketive.com/?p=2980',0,'post','',3),(2422,24,'2011-11-21 10:46:34','2011-11-21 18:46:34','God decided He was tired of humanity, tired of the incessant selfish requests. He called His angels in for advice. \"I would like to go somewhere were these humans will not find me,\" God said to the angels. One angel spoke up, \"Hide on the highest mountain, they will not find you there.\" Another angel said, \"The bottom of the deepest ocean.\" One angel shouted, \"The dark side of the moon, they cannot see you there.\" God not satisfied that these suggestions would hide Him, He summoned His wisest angel and asked him, \"Where can I hide so that these humans will not find me?\" The angel smiled and replied, \"hide in their hearts, for they fear to look within.\"\n\nWith the worlds current events getting so much attention and the endless banter between politicians, governments and corporations it may appear that our world has lost its mind. One can find oneself lost it trying to fix all sorts of systems and entities to make the world a safe place to live. I would like to point out a view of things that allows one to loose interest in getting something from this world. Instead I will point to a Reality the demands nothings, asks for nothing, it simply is what it is. For some this is to simple, or boring. They are far more interested in fixing others and entertaining themselves in the drama of their lives.\n\nOne can liken the addiction we have to the drama of this world as to walking into a room of people watching their favorite soap opera. At the climax you walk up and turn the TV off. Now just imagine the response. Anger, yelling, pushing and shoving are likely effects of disconnecting people from their entertainment. Another example would be to walking into a crowded bar on a playoff night, turn the power off just prior to the end of a close game. Do you see the same reactions? One does not have to condemn this addiction we see to prevalent in society, one just at some point to decide whether or not to continue to participate in it.\n\nThose of you who were raised in any sort of religion, culture/ethnicity, sports team loyalists, soap opera fanatics upbringing were usually told what to believe and why. Even if you were not told directly it was obvious by the behavior of your family.  \"We are Bronco fans because we live in Colorado.\" We hate the Raisers and Chargers with a passion!\"  We are Catholics?Protestants/ Buddhists ect because we have been this faith for generations.\n\nHow do we know if anything is true? Can our thoughts, perceptions, families beliefs and customs be trusted as Truth?\n\n<strong>\"Man is intrinsically innocent because he can only choose what he perceives to be good.\" - Socrates</strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/YoungOldWoman.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1976\" src=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/YoungOldWoman-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" /></a>Is this your wife or mother-in-law?\nWhich perception is real?\nDoes one negate the other?\nDo both exist simultaneously?\n\nI John 2: 9-11 Anyone who claims to live in God\'s light and hates a brother or sister is still in the dark. It\'s the person who loves brother and sister who dwells in God\'s light and doesn\'t block the light from others. But whoever hates is still in the dark, stumbles around in the dark, doesn\'t know which end is up, blinded by the darkness.\n\nLook around the room you are in. Is it possible to see the light? Or can you only see that with which the light illuminates?\n\nA persons way of speaking, behavior and thought process simply reveals what they are aligned with. Light doe not judge or condemn, its simply reveals what is. God is light and in Him there is no shadow or darkness. So evil is not the opposite or antithesis of God, but simply his absence. Perception is then extremely subjective.\n\nOur perceptions are derived from a mind that searches for the meaning of what it perceives or in other words identifies with. If the mind believes something has value it then desires it. Thoughts and feelings arise from desire, and the mind desires what it values.\n\nOur minds as children are innocent, like a brand new Mac Book Pro without any software. We then observe our families our culture our entertainment and we pick up the software that runs our minds value system which is called perception.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Perception is Deception','','inherit','open','open','','1975-revision-12','','','2011-11-21 10:46:34','2011-11-21 18:46:34','',1975,'http://provoketive.com/2011/11/21/1975-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(2405,57,'2011-11-23 08:00:47','2011-11-23 16:00:47','Like millions of others, I watched a disturbing video last weekend of UC Davis students getting pepper-sprayed by campus police lieutenant John Pike. The most surreal part of the video was the casual nonchalance with which Lt. Pike sprayed painful toxins into students\' faces. It was as though he were spraying Roundup in a garden, and it made me think of an experience I had in my garden.\r\n\r\nI like to harvest my own jalapeño and poblano seeds. The first time, I didn\'t use gloves. My hands were soon covered with a burning that made it impossible to think about anything else. Then I did something very stupid. I itched my nose. This made me sneeze repeatedly. So my eyes got itchy, and before I knew it, I had spread the evil pepper juice to my eyes as well. Every time I tried to wash a part of me that was on fire, it made the burning spread. It took several painful experiences before I caved and made the very unmanly move of buying some latex gloves to handle my peppers with.\r\n\r\nPepper spray is made of concentrated capsaicin, the chemical that makes peppers hot. The difference between my painful pepper seed harvesting experience and what the UC Davis students felt who got pepper-sprayed last Friday is that they got a several hundred times more intense version of my pain sprayed deliberately into their faces from point-blank range. Though I\'ve never been pepper-sprayed, I have some idea based on my painful experience what pepper spray might do to a person physically. But what else does it do?\r\n\r\nWhat does pepper spray do to the person spraying it? Since Lt. Pike is a cop on a college campus (and not in the hood), this might have been his first time using pepper spray. What does it do to your humanity when you watch other human beings suffer intense pain because of what you sprayed into their faces? I suspect it\'s different if you\'re caught in an adrenalin rush when someone physically attacks you. Wouldn\'t it mess with your head to spray people who are sitting on the ground and the most threatening thing they\'ve done is to link arms and try to hide their eyes underneath their sweater when they see your pepper spray can?\r\n\r\nWhen you do something like that, does the memory haunt you? Do you have bad dreams about it? Or do you change the story in your mind and conjure up a way that your victim was attacking you? This sounds like what UC Davis campus police chief Annette Spicuzza is <a href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/19/4066159/10-occupy-protesters-arrested.html\">trying to do</a>. She said the police were surrounded by a crowd and felt \"threatened.\" The only problem with that narrative is that, in the <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjnR7xET7Uo\">youtube video</a>, Lt. Pike actually <em>steps over</em> the seated protesters right before spraying them (so it\'s pretty hard to argue that they were an obstacle to his passage).\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/lt_pike_spraying.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2447\" src=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/lt_pike_spraying-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" /></a>This brings us to another effect of pepper spray: the perception of the public who hear about the story. Since pepper spray is what you use on a guy in a dark alley who\'s about to mug you, the assumption is that if people get pepper sprayed, they must have done something violent. It\'s been interesting to watch university officials try to redefine the boundaries of nonviolence in response to to these incidents. UC Berkeley chancellor Robert Birgeneau <a href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/2011/11/10/campus-administrators-send-out-message-responding-to-occupy-cal-demonstrations/\">wrote</a> that \"linking arms and forming a human chain to prevent the police from gaining access to the tents... is not non-violent civil disobedience.\" So linking arms has now become violent? When most people reading these stories see pepper spray, they assume that whoever was on the receiving end must have deserved it, so nonviolence is allowed to be redefined in popular discourse.\r\n\r\nStill, there\'s one positive thing that happens to people who get pepper sprayed. When you suffer for what you believe in, it\'s the ultimate validation of your faith that inspires you to fight for your cause all the more zealously. This was what the Roman Empire could not understand about the early Christians. Every time they threw another one to the lions, they added lighter fluid to the fire they were trying to stomp out which eventually burned their empire down. The Jewish religious authorities had a similar experience in Acts 5:40-42:\r\n<blockquote><em>They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name. Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.</em></blockquote>\r\nThe flogging of the Sanhedrin made the apostles rejoice because it validated their faith. I\'m not saying it makes the UC Davis students\' opinions \"right\" just because they got pepper-sprayed. I\'m ambivalent about the Occupy protests in general, because I believe the way to change the world is through the long, boring process of Christian discipleship.\r\n\r\nBut I do wonder what it means that few Christians in our country today \"have been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name\" (unlike Christians in Pakistan and other places). What does it say about Christians that we <em>aren\'t</em> getting pepper-sprayed? Jesus tells His disciples that the world will hate us because it hated Him (John 15:18). I have really hated it every time I\'ve had pepper juice on my face, but maybe one day God will count me worthy of suffering for the name of Jesus.','What Does Pepper Spray Do?','','publish','open','open','','what-does-pepper-spray-do','','','2011-11-21 17:43:18','2011-11-22 01:43:18','',0,'http://provoketive.com/?p=2405',0,'post','',1),(2403,1,'2011-11-20 09:55:35','2011-11-20 17:55:35','','through_conflict','','inherit','open','open','','through_conflict','','','2011-11-20 09:55:35','2011-11-20 17:55:35','',2361,'http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/through_conflict.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2404,1,'2011-11-20 09:54:44','2011-11-20 17:54:44','<a href=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/zax2.gif\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2366\" src=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/zax2-300x263.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAgree or disagree?\r\n\r\n“There is no future without forgiveness.”\r\n\r\n“All violence terrorizes.”\r\n\r\n“Violence is never justified.”\r\n\r\n“Men are better drivers than women.”\r\n\r\nThese were some of the purposefully provocative questions posed to us toward the end of the week at the Corrymeela Peace Center in Northern Ireland, where a group of 14 Americans and “Islanders” met to experience and learn about Conflict Transformation.  The questions were designed to draw debate and to tickle a bit of real tension and conflict out of a group of people who share no history with one another.  That it succeeded in doing this became clear in the “check in” round after the heated debates took place.  The aim of the exercise was to lead us into our own experience of Deep Dialog, a core element of the Journey Through Conflict, which is a venture of reconciliation which <a href=\"http://livepage.apple.com/\">Alistair Little</a> and <a href=\"http://livepage.apple.com/\">Wilhelm Verwoerd</a> (definitely worth looking them up!) are inviting people from communities of deeply rooted conflict to participate in.  On this particular occasion, we were learning from their experience as a short intensive course within the M.Phil in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation program offered through the Irish School of Ecumenics at Trinity College of Dublin.\r\n\r\nI shouldn’t have been as surprised at how easy it was to uncover some friction even among a group who hadn’t been together longer than a week.  For those of us who get stoned off of this kind of frenzied, back and forth probing of issues, with each round getting louder, messier, more invested, it could have gone on for hours.  Others tuned out rather than elbow their way into the fray, and others still were more than a little annoyed with such unrestrained bantering and domineering personalities.  I shouldn’t have been surprised, because the very reason I have embarked on this particular Master’s course is that I have come to the fervent conviction that conflict is a ubiquitous part of our lives, not to be gotten around by anyone, anywhere, in any way.  After breathing, sleeping, eating and relieving oneself, conflict is the very next aspect of our being alive which we cannot escape.  So of course we could find something to do deep dialog around after just a few days together: we’re humans!\r\n\r\nI bring this up here, because I see the danger of continuing a bad ‘family’ trait even into this new emergent generation.  I grew up in a non-christian home and a Christian extended family, both of which pretended that if we didn’t talk about conflict, it meant that we didn’t have any;  I studied theology at an inter-denominational college where conflict as a theme in and of itself was never addressed theologically; and I spent years in churches, seminars, conferences, retreats and missions (Evangelical, Charismatic, and Lutheran; in America, Sweden, Australia, PNG and Germany), where, besides an occasional reference to Matthew 18:15-17, and the ever-present lapel to forgive, there was no strategy and no underlying concept for helping their communities deal with conflict constructively.  The cardinal assumption being that good Christians don’t do conflict!\r\n\r\nBut rather than fostering fraternities exuding peace and justice in the world, this refusal to take conflict head on theologically, exacerbates the friction inevitable in any human plural, and conditions cultures to fester and fracture over matters both profound and piddling.  Of greater consequence even than the personal stories of disillusionment with Christian fellowships that abound, as grim as that is, however, is the general disconnect that many faith communities and institutions have toward complex societal ills, the prolific number of armed conflicts around the world, and trans-global injustices.  With the exception of my brief time in <a href=\"http://livepage.apple.com/\">Church of the Savior</a>, DC, of which Sojourners Magazine is a part, nary a mention of these realities in the Christian sub-cultures I’ve experienced in over twenty years!\r\n\r\nPraiseworthy is the relatively recent attention that Evangelicals are paying to creating clean water supplies, catastrophe and famine relief and AIDs, but even these efforts are consistent with a ‘messianic’ self perception to ‘save’ the perishing ‘victims’ and allow us to wear a super hero cape without unmasking the fact, that we still have no viably creative alternatives to dealing with our enemy other than to kill them or send them to hell.  While some Emergents (Bell books and bloggers) are gaining prominence by questioning the latter alternative (the Christian concept of eternal punishment for God’s (our) enemies in the after life), those who are trying to apply a Christological lens to real world conflict in this life receive less attention in Christian popular culture.\r\n\r\nOne could become suspicious that our fanaticism with hell, either for or against, is mostly a misplaced projection of our unresolved ambivalence about the quandary that we should “love our enemies” in a world of enmity and often unspeakable evil without condoning it or encouraging a culture of impunity.  The fire and brimstone crowd compensates for a present powerlessness to execute justice by postponing judgement until the end of time, when the unrepentant will reap their just reward.  The ‘Love Wins’ crowd squirm their way out of the predicament by postponing the hard, and perhaps in some instances impossible, work of reconciliation between perpetrators and their victims until the afterlife, when God will just magically make everyone get along.\r\n\r\nBut not everyone has the luxury of delaying the question of reconciliation until some future trumpet wakes us from the dead.  There are too many in our world who must live side by side with those who have done the most unimaginable and unspeakable things to them and their families.  Just last night I saw <a href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/liberia/8812984/Nobel-Peace-Prize-profile-of-Leymah-Gbowee.html\">Leymah Gbowee</a>, Nobel peace prize winner and newly appointed head of a national reconciliation committee in Liberia, <a href=\"http://livepage.apple.com/\">tell John Stewart</a> about what is unfortunately not an anomaly in many war-torn countries.  A mother wrote to Gbowee asking for advice about her family’s dilemma.  Her son was murdered.  Her daughter fled to a refugee camp.  The daughter wrote to her mother ten years later, that she has married a pastor and has two children, and would be coming home with her new family.  The husband pictured in the photograph she included with the letter is the man who killed the mother\'s son… his wife’s brother!  Should this mother, who will have to live with the murderer of her son, tell her daughter the truth about her husband, the father to her grandchildren, whom they adore?  Gbowee has no answer for this woman.  She admits to Stewart, that ‘reconciliation’ is a mostly blank page, which they will begin to fill with their experiences and first efforts to work towards it.  It is from courageous people like Gbowee, and many others like her, that we must learn... that is, if we can stop speculating about the after life long enough to do so.\r\n\r\nWhen I am able to whittle away some time from being a full-time mother of three, full-time grad-student, part-time community organizer and part-time committee mom, I hope to contribute periodically to the conversation here in provokEtive.  When I do, I will be inviting readers to journey with me through the conflicts we face in this world here and now, hell enough for some people, and will be passing along the questions, insights and experience which I’m gleaning from people like Little, Verwoerd, Gbowee, as well as Miroslav Volf (<a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Exclusion-Embrace-Theological-Exploration-Reconciliation/dp/0687002826/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1321557714&amp;sr=1-1\"><em>Exclusion and Embrace</em></a> is a foundational and profoundly relevant book) Paul Lederach, an experienced practitioner) and many others who are not shying away from tackling this conundrum of Christian ethics, but who are searching for ways to transform conflict from the divisive contest it most often is into a constructive process of change, growth and flourishing that it can become.\r\n\r\n<em> Photo Credit: Illya Kondratyuk</em>','Journey Through Conflict','','inherit','open','open','','2361-revision-4','','','2011-11-20 09:54:44','2011-11-20 17:54:44','',2361,'http://provoketive.com/2011/11/20/2361-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(2398,1,'2011-11-20 09:40:57','2011-11-20 17:40:57','<blockquote>It is a beautiful thought, my children, that we have a sacrament that heals the wounds of our souls! -  Saint John Vianney</blockquote>\r\n<h3>Do you have soul wounds?</h3>\r\nFor me this depends on day-to-day realities.  It is a discipline (see below: Nouwen on discipline) not to allow things like bitterness, anger, envy, or conceit to enter in, quickly overtaking what I <em>know</em> to be true and beautiful.  A harsh or rude word is spoken or written.  I resent another\'s success. Or my day-to-day life practices add up to selfish spending  or no time for others, which bring an inability to be generous with either.\r\n<blockquote>Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.</blockquote>\r\nChoices, choices, choices.  Choices discipline us and bring order in and of themselves.  Knowing Christ, understanding Grace also did that for me.  Knowing that I am the one he loved enough to die for --  that his body was broken, the nails cut into his hands and feet as he slowly strangled, gasping for air.  All that was for me.  For you.\r\n\r\nAnd more than <em>the human</em> part of that death -- which was physically painful and devastating -- <em>he cried out to God, his father, to rescue him from my sin!</em>\r\n<h3>Then, all the petty and selfish choices I make day-to-day feel even more<em> petty,</em><em> selfish, and</em><em> sickening.</em></h3>\r\n<h3>But wait.  The pure beauty of the sacrament is the <em>washing away!</em></h3>\r\nThe cleansing of our heart, soul and mind that had been corrupted by the entangling of day-to-day.\r\n\r\nHenri Nouwen said this:\r\n<blockquote>“When God took on flesh in Jesus Christ, the uncreated and the created, the eternal and the temporal, the divine and the human became united. This unity meant that all that is mortal now points to the immortal, all that is finite now points to the infinite. In and through Jesus all creation has become like a splendid veil, through which the face of God is revealed to us. This is called the sacramental quality of the created order. All that is is sacred because all that is speaks of God\'s redeeming love. Seas and winds, mountains and trees, sun, moon, and stars, and all the animals and people have become sacred windows offering us glimpses of God.”</blockquote>\r\nIf truly understood, this is a profound, life changing truth. If you are feeling wounded. If you inflicted those bloody wounds on your own soul, remember.  He took on flesh pain and soul pain for you.  He took on our sin and we are now joined to him.\r\n\r\nAnd now our lives point others to the immortal, through the confession of our sin and the washing away. Through the cleansing Jesus offers.  Tell him where your soul is wounded.  Let him take it from you today.\r\n\r\n________________________________________\r\n<blockquote>Discipline is the other side of discipleship. Discipleship without discipline is like waiting to run in the marathon without ever practicing. Discipline without discipleship is like always practicing for the marathon but never participating. It is important, however, to realize that discipline in the spiritual life is not the same as discipline in sports. Discipline in sports is the concentrated effort to master the body so that it can obey the mind better. Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God\'s guidance.\r\n\r\nThus, discipline is the <em>creation of boundaries</em> that keep time and space open for God. Solitude requires discipline, worship requires discipline, caring for others requires discipline. They all ask us to set apart a time and a place where God\'s gracious presence can be acknowledged and responded to.  -- Henri J.M. Nouwen\'s <em>Bread for the Journey.</em></blockquote>','Do You Have Soul Wounds?','','inherit','open','open','','2355-autosave','','','2011-11-20 09:40:57','2011-11-20 17:40:57','',2355,'http://provoketive.com/2011/11/20/2355-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(2399,1,'2011-11-20 09:29:42','2011-11-20 17:29:42','','soul_wounds','','inherit','open','open','','soul_wounds','','','2011-11-20 09:29:42','2011-11-20 17:29:42','',2355,'http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/soul_wounds.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2400,1,'2011-11-17 10:38:58','2011-11-17 18:38:58','<blockquote>It is a beautiful thought, my children, that we have a sacrament that heals the wounds of our souls! -  Saint John Vianney</blockquote>\r\n<h3>Do you  have soul wounds?</h3>\r\nFor me this depends on day-to-day realities.  It is a discipline (see below: Nouwen on discipline) not to allow things like bitterness, anger, envy, or conceit to enter in, quickly overtaking what I <em>know</em> to be true and beautiful.  A harsh or rude word is spoken or written.  I resent another\'s success. Or my day-to-day life practices add up to selfish spending  or no time for others, which bring an inability to be generous with either.\r\n<blockquote>Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.</blockquote>\r\nChoices, choices, choices.  Choices discipline us and bring order in and of themselves.  Knowing Christ, understanding Grace also did that for me.  Knowing that I am the one he loved enough to die for --  that his body was broken, the nails cut into his hands and feet as he slowly strangled, gasping for air.  All that was for me.  For you.\r\n\r\nAnd more than <em>the human</em> part of that death -- which was physically painful and devastating -- <em>he cried out to God, his father, to rescue him from my sin!</em>\r\n<h3>Then, all the petty and selfish choices I make day-to-day feel even more<em> petty,</em><em> selfish, and</em><em> sickening.</em></h3>\r\n<h3>But wait.  The pure beauty of the sacrament is the <em>washing away!</em></h3>\r\nThe cleansing of our heart, soul and mind that had been corrupted by the entangling of day-to-day.\r\n\r\nHenri Nouwen said this:\r\n<blockquote>“When God took on flesh in Jesus Christ, the uncreated and the created, the eternal and the temporal, the divine and the human became united. This unity meant that all that is mortal now points to the immortal, all that is finite now points to the infinite. In and through Jesus all creation has become like a splendid veil, through which the face of God is revealed to us. This is called the sacramental quality of the created order. All that is is sacred because all that is speaks of God\'s redeeming love. Seas and winds, mountains and trees, sun, moon, and stars, and all the animals and people have become sacred windows offering us glimpses of God.”</blockquote>\r\nIf truly understood, this is a profound, life changing truth. If you are feeling wounded. If you inflicted those bloody wounds on your own soul, remember.  He took on flesh pain and soul pain for you.  He took on our sin and we are now joined to him.\r\n\r\nAnd now our lives point others to the immortal, through the confession of our sin and the washing away. Through the cleansing Jesus offers.  Tell him where your soul is wounded.  Let him take it from you today.\r\n\r\n________________________________________\r\n<blockquote>Discipline is the other side of discipleship. Discipleship without discipline is like waiting to run in the marathon without ever practicing. Discipline without discipleship is like always practicing for the marathon but never participating. It is important, however, to realize that discipline in the spiritual life is not the same as discipline in sports. Discipline in sports is the concentrated effort to master the body so that it can obey the mind better. Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God\'s guidance.\r\n\r\nThus, discipline is the <em>creation of boundaries</em> that keep time and space open for God. Solitude requires discipline, worship requires discipline, caring for others requires discipline. They all ask us to set apart a time and a place where God\'s gracious presence can be acknowledged and responded to.  -- Henri J.M. Nouwen\'s <em>Bread for the Journey.</em></blockquote>','Do you have Soul Wounds?','','inherit','open','open','','2355-revision-2','','','2011-11-17 10:38:58','2011-11-17 18:38:58','',2355,'http://provoketive.com/2011/11/17/2355-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(2401,1,'2011-11-20 09:30:32','2011-11-20 17:30:32','<blockquote>It is a beautiful thought, my children, that we have a sacrament that heals the wounds of our souls! -  Saint John Vianney</blockquote>\r\n<h3>Do you have soul wounds?</h3>\r\nFor me this depends on day-to-day realities.  It is a discipline (see below: Nouwen on discipline) not to allow things like bitterness, anger, envy, or conceit to enter in, quickly overtaking what I <em>know</em> to be true and beautiful.  A harsh or rude word is spoken or written.  I resent another\'s success. Or my day-to-day life practices add up to selfish spending  or no time for others, which bring an inability to be generous with either.\r\n<blockquote>Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.</blockquote>\r\nChoices, choices, choices.  Choices discipline us and bring order in and of themselves.  Knowing Christ, understanding Grace also did that for me.  Knowing that I am the one he loved enough to die for --  that his body was broken, the nails cut into his hands and feet as he slowly strangled, gasping for air.  All that was for me.  For you.\r\n\r\nAnd more than <em>the human</em> part of that death -- which was physically painful and devastating -- <em>he cried out to God, his father, to rescue him from my sin!</em>\r\n<h3>Then, all the petty and selfish choices I make day-to-day feel even more<em> petty,</em><em> selfish, and</em><em> sickening.</em></h3>\r\n<h3>But wait.  The pure beauty of the sacrament is the <em>washing away!</em></h3>\r\nThe cleansing of our heart, soul and mind that had been corrupted by the entangling of day-to-day.\r\n\r\nHenri Nouwen said this:\r\n<blockquote>“When God took on flesh in Jesus Christ, the uncreated and the created, the eternal and the temporal, the divine and the human became united. This unity meant that all that is mortal now points to the immortal, all that is finite now points to the infinite. In and through Jesus all creation has become like a splendid veil, through which the face of God is revealed to us. This is called the sacramental quality of the created order. All that is is sacred because all that is speaks of God\'s redeeming love. Seas and winds, mountains and trees, sun, moon, and stars, and all the animals and people have become sacred windows offering us glimpses of God.”</blockquote>\r\nIf truly understood, this is a profound, life changing truth. If you are feeling wounded. If you inflicted those bloody wounds on your own soul, remember.  He took on flesh pain and soul pain for you.  He took on our sin and we are now joined to him.\r\n\r\nAnd now our lives point others to the immortal, through the confession of our sin and the washing away. Through the cleansing Jesus offers.  Tell him where your soul is wounded.  Let him take it from you today.\r\n\r\n________________________________________\r\n<blockquote>Discipline is the other side of discipleship. Discipleship without discipline is like waiting to run in the marathon without ever practicing. Discipline without discipleship is like always practicing for the marathon but never participating. It is important, however, to realize that discipline in the spiritual life is not the same as discipline in sports. Discipline in sports is the concentrated effort to master the body so that it can obey the mind better. Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God\'s guidance.\r\n\r\nThus, discipline is the <em>creation of boundaries</em> that keep time and space open for God. Solitude requires discipline, worship requires discipline, caring for others requires discipline. They all ask us to set apart a time and a place where God\'s gracious presence can be acknowledged and responded to.  -- Henri J.M. Nouwen\'s <em>Bread for the Journey.</em></blockquote>','Do you have Soul Wounds?','','inherit','open','open','','2355-revision-3','','','2011-11-20 09:30:32','2011-11-20 17:30:32','',2355,'http://provoketive.com/2011/11/20/2355-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(2402,1,'2011-11-17 15:53:47','2011-11-17 23:53:47','<a href=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/zax2.gif\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2366\" src=\"http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/zax2-300x263.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAgree or disagree?\r\n\r\n“There is no future without forgiveness.”\r\n\r\n“All violence terrorizes.”\r\n\r\n“Violence is never justified.”\r\n\r\n“Men are better drivers than women.”\r\n\r\nThese were some of the purposefully provocative questions posed to us toward the end of the week at the Corrymeela Peace Center in Northern Ireland, where a group of 14 Americans and “Islanders” met to experience and learn about Conflict Transformation.  The questions were designed to draw debate and to tickle a bit of real tension and conflict out of a group of people who share no history with one another.  That it succeeded in doing this became clear in the “check in” round after the heated debates took place.  The aim of the exercise was to lead us into our own experience of Deep Dialog, a core element of the Journey Through Conflict, which is a venture of reconciliation which <a href=\"http://livepage.apple.com/\">Alistair Little</a> and <a href=\"http://livepage.apple.com/\">Wilhelm Verwoerd</a> (definitely worth looking them up!) are inviting people from communities of deeply rooted conflict to participate in.  On this particular occasion, we were learning from their experience as a short intensive course within the M.Phil in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation program offered through the Irish School of Ecumenics at Trinity College of Dublin.\r\n\r\nI shouldn’t have been as surprised at how easy it was to uncover some friction even among a group who hadn’t been together longer than a week.  For those of us who get stoned off of this kind of frenzied, back and forth probing of issues, with each round getting louder, messier, more invested, it could have gone on for hours.  Others tuned out rather than elbow their way into the fray, and others still were more than a little annoyed with such unrestrained bantering and domineering personalities.  I shouldn’t have been surprised, because the very reason I have embarked on this particular Master’s course is that I have come to the fervent conviction that conflict is a ubiquitous part of our lives, not to be gotten around by anyone, anywhere, in any way.  After breathing, sleeping, eating and relieving oneself, conflict is the very next aspect of our being alive which we cannot escape.  So of course we could find something to do deep dialog around after just a few days together: we’re humans!\r\n\r\nI bring this up here, because I see the danger of continuing a bad ‘family’ trait even into this new emergent generation.  I grew up in a non-christian home and a Christian extended family, both of which pretended that if we didn’t talk about conflict, it meant that we didn’t have any;  I studied theology at an inter-denominational college where conflict as a theme in and of itself was never addressed theologically; and I spent years in churches, seminars, conferences, retreats and missions (Evangelical, Charismatic, and Lutheran; in America, Sweden, Australia, PNG and Germany), where, besides an occasional reference to Matthew 18:15-17, and the ever-present lapel to forgive, there was no strategy and no underlying concept for helping their communities deal with conflict constructively.  The cardinal assumption being that good Christians don’t do conflict!\r\n\r\nBut rather than fostering fraternities exuding peace and justice in the world, this refusal to take conflict head on theologically, exacerbates the friction inevitable in any human plural, and conditions cultures to fester and fracture over matters both profound and piddling.  Of greater consequence even than the personal stories of disillusionment with Christian fellowships that abound, as grim as that is, however, is the general disconnect that many faith communities and institutions have toward complex societal ills, the prolific number of armed conflicts around the world, and trans-global injustices.  With the exception of my brief time in <a href=\"http://livepage.apple.com/\">Church of the Savior</a>, DC, of which Sojourners Magazine is a part, nary a mention of these realities in the Christian sub-cultures I’ve experienced in over twenty years!\r\n\r\nPraiseworthy is the relatively recent attention that Evangelicals are paying to creating clean water supplies, catastrophe and famine relief and AIDs, but even these efforts are consistent with a ‘messianic’ self perception to ‘save’ the perishing ‘victims’ and allow us to wear a super hero cape without unmasking the fact, that we still have no viably creative alternatives to dealing with our enemy other than to kill them or send them to hell.  While some Emergents (Bell books and bloggers) are gaining prominence by questioning the latter alternative (the Christian concept of eternal punishment for God’s (our) enemies in the after life), those who are trying to apply a Christological lens to real world conflict in this life receive less attention in Christian popular culture.\r\n\r\nOne could become suspicious that our fanaticism with hell, either for or against, is mostly a misplaced projection of our unresolved ambivalence about the quandary that we should “love our enemies” in a world of enmity and often unspeakable evil without condoning it or encouraging a culture of impunity.  The fire and brimstone crowd compensates for a present powerlessness to execute justice by postponing judgement until the end of time, when the unrepentant will reap their just reward.  The ‘Love Wins’ crowd squirm their way out of the predicament by postponing the hard, and perhaps in some instances impossible, work of reconciliation between perpetrators and their victims until the afterlife, when God will just magically make everyone get along.\r\n\r\nBut not everyone has the luxury of delaying the question of reconciliation until some future trumpet wakes us from the dead.  There are too many in our world who must live side by side with those who have done the most unimaginable and unspeakable things to them and their families.  Just last night I saw <a href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/liberia/8812984/Nobel-Peace-Prize-profile-of-Leymah-Gbowee.html\">Leymah Gbowee</a>, Nobel peace prize winner and newly appointed head of a national reconciliation committee in Liberia, <a href=\"http://livepage.apple.com/\">tell John Stewart</a> about what is unfortunately not an anomaly in many war-torn countries.  A mother wrote to Gbowee asking for advice about her family’s dilemma.  Her son was murdered.  Her daughter fled to a refugee camp.  The daughter wrote to her mother ten years later, that she has married a pastor and has two children, and would be coming home with her new family.  The husband pictured in the photograph she included with the letter is the man who killed the mother\'s son… his wife’s brother!  Should this mother, who will have to live with the murderer of her son, tell her daughter the truth about her husband, the father to her grandchildren, whom they adore?  Gbowee has no answer for this woman.  She admits to Stewart, that ‘reconciliation’ is a mostly blank page, which they will begin to fill with their experiences and first efforts to work towards it.  It is from courageous people like Gbowee, and many others like her, that we must learn... that is, if we can stop speculating about the after life long enough to do so.\r\n\r\nWhen I am able to whittle away some time from being a full-time mother of three, full-time grad-student, part-time community organizer and part-time committee mom, I hope to contribute periodically to the conversation here in provokEtive.  When I do, I will be inviting readers to journey with me through the conflicts we face in this world here and now, hell enough for some people, and will be passing along the questions, insights and experience which I’m gleaning from people like Little, Verwoerd, Gbowee, as well as Miroslav Volf (<a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Exclusion-Embrace-Theological-Exploration-Reconciliation/dp/0687002826/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1321557714&amp;sr=1-1\"><em>Exclusion and Embrace</em></a> is a foundational and profoundly relevant book) Paul Lederach, an experienced practitioner) and many others who are not shying away from tackling this conundrum of Christian ethics, but who are searching for ways to transform conflict from the divisive contest it most often is into a constructive process of change, growth and flourishing that it can become.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Journey Through Conflict','','inherit','open','open','','2361-revision-3','','','2011-11-17 15:53:47','2011-11-17 23:53:47','',2361,'http://provoketive.com/2011/11/17/2361-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(2414,101,'2011-11-21 04:20:56','2011-11-21 12:20:56','I hid for a long time.\n\nMy closet was decorated with Bible verses and well-worn answers to complex issues.  It was wrapped tightly in caution tape that said \'un-orthodox viewpoints beware - I am a warrior of The Truth.\' Rays of confidence flowed from underneath the door and through the keyhole, anywhere that unwanted questions might slip in. And there I was inside, truly confident in many aspects but utterly terrified of my own doubts in many others - working knobs and buttons frantically like the little man from Kansas behind the curtain. I was anxious daily that a little dog might pull away my covering and expose me as a regular girl who loved Jesus but feared the wrath of the Lord.\n\nIt was through therapy (Google \'scrupulosity\'), followed by emotional healing prayer in the hands of healthy Christians that I slowly began to emerge. It was a startling encounter with God that  realized that my questions weren\'t so alarming to God and that my definition of grace was out of whack (grace came when I earned it by proving my good-little-girl-ness to the Almighty).\n\nOne day I was fretting especially hard about something. In my spirit I was on my knees pleading whatever my case was (perhaps why I liked secular music or was working so hard on my screenplay instead of praying or reading my Bible).  In mid whine I felt like God grabbed me by the shoulders and gave me a shake.\n\n\'Stand up, child,\" He said.\n\nI blinked.\n\n\'Huh?\' I stammered.\n\n\'I\'m not mad at you for anything at all\'\n\n\'You\'re not?\'\n\n\'Of course not. You are making war where there is peace...I can\'t do anything with you in this state\'.\n\n\'But we\'re supposed to be on our knees worshiping you.\'\n\n\'I don\'t want worship like this - like Wormtail, groveling and begging for fear of retribution. Don\'t you know who I am?\'\n\nI was  simultaneously shocked that apparently God read \'Harry Potter\' (one of my favorites) and offended that he had compared me to the sniveling, cowardly servant of the Dark Lord in the story. But He had hit the nail on the head. I was acting like a coward.\n\nIn answer to His latter question, at one point, early on in childhood, I did know who He was. I knew Him as love, tenderness and grace. Somewhere I had gotten lost and hid away in that closet of false confidence, fear had taken root. Maybe it was legalistic friends, maybe it was one too many Chick Tracts. Whatever the culprit, God had finally come knocking. Well, probably he had been knocking. It might be better said that he had given up knocking and was now banging. He put the first cracks in the walls of my safe theological closet. I didn\'t have Him neatly figured out. My questions were not evil. It was OK to be exactly who I was.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nJesus is True. That\'s the one thing I know for sure. Because I\'ve met Him. Beyond that, it\'s all just commentary (props to Rob Bell).\n\nSome random thoughts on life, love and faith from a girl who\'s just calling it like she sees it and who is done apologizing and hyper-spiritualizing her way through the journey.\n\nThere are beautiful Christians who aren\'t Conservative Republicans.\n\nMy daily struggles and questions and processing does not preclude me from being a good prayer minister.\n\nI can be a Charismatic without subscribing carte blanche to Pentecostal traditions.\n\nIt\'s OK to enjoy the love I have been given.\n\nEveryone is a hypocrite about something.\n\nChances are I am more annoyed at myself than God is.\n\nThe Bible is not an object to be worshiped.\n\nThe One whose life and breath flow through the Biblical canon is the source of all life and worthy of worship.\n\nI love being a woman.\n\nI love my ta-tas. They are small but cute.\n\nIt\'s OK to feel sexy even if I\'m not married.\n\nIt is impossible to shackle someone to rules and still call them free.\n\nI believe in having a personal relationship with each member of the God-head -Papa, Jesus and Holy Spirit. This is where wisdom grows.\n\nThe Holy Spirit is feminine.\n\nGod is masculine\n\nJesus was a male human being who carried both masculine and feminine traits in perfect balance.\n\nNeither male nor female is more important than the other. They were created equally in the image of God.\n\nI have learned that everyone at any given time is probably doing or thinking something that is forbidden in the Bible. It is like trying to plug up a broken dam with your finger. Best plan: Give up and let Jesus\' work on the cross be enough.\n\nI wonder if we sometimes can\'t see Jesus past the \'word\'.\n\nI love football.\n\nFundamentalism can be in error.\n\nStripping Scripture of all mystical notion and completely \'humanizing\' it can also be in error.\n\nFinding The \"Radical Middle\" is my quest.\n\nI think homosexuals are treated like lepers and Samaritans by many evangelicals. I think this is dishonoring and ignorant. I repent for my former stances on this issue.\n\nI think I can learn from anyone.\n\n\"Spirit-filled\" people sometimes scare me and make me wonder just what spirit they are filled with. I have scared myself.\n\nThe cake is a lie.\n\nDiscernment is best used to discern the presence of God, not the presence of demons.\n\nTangling with demons has become an arrogant sport in some deliverance ministries.\n\nI choose not to focus on demons. They\'ve already lost. Jesus gave me the keys.\n\nGod will always be more tender, merciful and graceful than humans.\n\nI have been a joker and a smoker but never a midnight toker.\n\nThe F word is my favorite.\n\nI greatly respect but don\'t always agree with the Apostle Paul. And I don\'t think that is blasphemous. I think he had issues just like the rest of us.\n\nSpeaking in tongues is cool.\n\nAnimals have souls and they go to heaven.\n\nThe post-flood covenant was made with the people and the animals (Genesis 9:10 - check it).\n\nEnd-Times stuff annoys me. I think it is by and large a distraction.\n\nLamborghinis are sexy cars.\n\nThe idea of \'crucifying my flesh\' is abhorrent to me. To try and do what was already done for me dishonors Christ and steals His joy.\n\nYou could destroy all the Bibles on the planet and still not destroy the Word of God.\n\nTo live in freedom with my focus on receiving and sharing the humanly impossible love of God is what Jesus asks of me. All other ground is sinking sand.\n\nIf everyone loved the way Jesus did the \'second coming\' (or is it the third?) would be upon us.\n\nTo live that way is hard. I don\'t know how to do it. And that is what makes religion so tempting. It makes me feel in control.\n\nEven still, Jesus take the wheel.','Coming out...Of the theological closet.','','inherit','open','open','','2390-revision-2','','','2011-11-21 04:20:56','2011-11-21 12:20:56','',2390,'http://provoketive.com/2011/11/21/2390-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(2392,0,'2011-11-19 15:54:39','2011-11-19 23:54:39','Social Justice\n<!--more-->\nAUTHOR: Bud Wilson\nAUTHOR EMAIL: thebud99@bellsouth.net\nAUTHOR URL: \nSUBJECT: Provoketive Magazine Writing For Provoketive\nIP: 65.13.98.197\nArray\n(\n    [Name] =&gt; Bud Wilson\n    [Email] =&gt; thebud99@bellsouth.net\n    [Existing Blog or Website] =&gt; \n    [List the topic you are interested writing about] =&gt; Social Justice\n    [Current or New WordPress Login Name (We\'ll send you a password.)] =&gt; thebud99\n)\n','Bud Wilson - 2011-11-19 15:54:39','','publish','open','open','','a21ef4b83aaab2205135dce2e7e46898','','','2011-11-19 15:54:39','2011-11-19 23:54:39','',358,'http://provoketive.com/?post_type=feedback&p=2392',0,'feedback','',0),(2622,20,'2011-11-30 09:00:43','2011-11-30 17:00:43','People like to emphasize different aspects of Jesus\'s life and teachings.  He taught that the pure in heart would be blessed, for example, seemingly indicating that the inward life is what truly matters.  Yet the miracles, warnings about judgment, and commands to care of the distressed and outcast are equally stressed.  A few weeks ago we discussed this passage at church from <a href=\"http://www.markscandrette.com/writing/practicing-the-way-of-jesus-coming-soon/\">Mark Scandrette\'s newest book, <em>Practicing the Way of Jesus</em></a>:<a href=\"http://www.markscandrette.com/writing/practicing-the-way-of-jesus-coming-soon/\" target=\"_blank\">\r\n</a>\r\n<blockquote>The baptism of Jesus provides a compelling picture of the kind of intimate union with God we were created for.  As he stepped out from the water, he heard a voice saying, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:16-17).  The Spirit then led Jesus into the wilderness where his identity as the beloved was tested.  He emerged after forty days a resolute son prepared to do “his father’s business.”  Subsequently, Jesus often withdrew to gardens and other lonely places.  In the most difficult hours leading up to his arrest, torture and crucifixion, he went into a garden one last time, kneeling to pray, “Abba, not my will but yours be done.”  A hidden life of solitude fueled his courageous public acts of love and service (p. 105).</blockquote>\r\nMaybe it could be said then that the Christian life is meant to be lived out on the razor’s edge between prophetic action and contemplative reflection.  And it is not so much that one of the steps in this dialectical process must come before the other.  Nor do they necessarily coalesce, really, but remain in tension and are mutually reinforcing.  They form the two pillars that buttress discipleship.  Politically speaking, for instance, we can therefore work for justice and even invest ourselves in certain legislative reforms, electoral changes and grassroots movements.  The role of the contemplative in this case, however, will be to keep our expectations and emotional attachment in check and somewhat disinterested.  The contemplative reminds us that at the end of the day, a Christ-follower still must ultimately find rest in her Sustainer rather than in the outcome of political proposals.<a title=\"\" href=\"#_edn1\">[i]</a>  Duke theologian <a href=\"http://divinity.duke.edu/academics/faculty/paul-griffiths\" target=\"_blank\">Paul J. 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information.  We will respond to you in 1-3 days.\r\n\r\n[contact-form subject=\"Provoketive Magazine Writing For Proketive\" to=\"jb@thriven.org\"] [contact-field label=\"Name\" type=\"name\" required=\"true\" /] [contact-field label=\"Email\" type=\"email\" required=\"true\" /] [contact-field label=\"Existing Blog or Website\" type=\"url\" /] [contact-field label=\"List the topic you are interested writing about\" type=\"textarea\" required=\"true\" /] [contact-field label=\"Current or New Wordpress Login Name (We\\\'ll send you a password.)\" type=\"text\" required=\"true\" /] [/contact-form]','Writing For Proketive','','inherit','open','open','','358-revision-10','','','2011-10-05 14:38:11','2011-10-05 21:38:11','',358,'http://provoketive.com/2011/10/05/358-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(1053,38,'2011-10-23 19:43:24','2011-10-24 02:43:24','','Auto Draft','','inherit','open','open','','1052-revision','','','2011-10-23 19:43:24','2011-10-24 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There\'s something wrong with that.\"</blockquote>\nThis is a quote by <a href=\"http://crystalstmarielewis.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal St. Lewis</a>, who I had a chance to hear speak at <a href=\"http://www.outlawpreachers.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Outlaw Preachers</a> (re)Union 2011. With my strict Baptist upbringing it was more like 99% because anyone outside of our church was probably going to the bad place downstairs.\n\nFor me, the exclusive nature of the church did not come into conflict with reality in relation to the path of salvation (at least not really, more about this later); it showed up in the willful perpetuation of ignorance in regards to other religions, the denial of other denominations being in the family, and the indignation that flares up when you talk about finding beauty in other religions. Here is just a small slice of how other denominations and religions were <strong>stereotyped </strong>and <strong>viewed incorrectly </strong>by my particular sect:\n\n<strong>Presbyterians </strong>– Liturgy? Pfffft. They’re doing it wrong. All that repetition means empty hearts and empty prayers.\n\n<strong>Lutherans </strong>– They don’t drink coffee. It may as well be a different religion.\n\n<strong>Methodists </strong>– No one really talked about them, but we’re sure they’re weird too.\n\n<strong>Church of God</strong> – Female pastors!\n\n<strong>Episcopals </strong>– They like the gays. (This denomination was particularly deemed dangerous, though no one was ever any more specific than “They’re into some weird stuff.”)\n\n<strong>Pentecostal </strong>– They speak in tongues and like to dance. Do you need any more evidence?\n\n<strong>Non-denomination churches</strong> – They can’t pick sides so they try to make everyone happy.\n\n<strong>Catholics </strong>– “You do know they worship Mary, right?” And all they want to do is buy indulgences so they can sin. (Barely considered to be part of the Protestant branch. Get thee out of my Christian tree!)\n\n<strong>Seventh Day Adventists</strong> – Something about a Watchtower and they think they all can become god or something.\n\n<strong>Mormons </strong>– Salt Lake City, baby! They like to marry multiple women and the guy who wrote The Book or Mormon was a crazy.\n\n<strong>Anglicans </strong>– Something to do with the old church. And they’re more or less Catholics.\n\n<strong>Jews </strong>– We only like the Messianic ones. All the others only live by a bunch of rules and don’t love God, because you can’t love God through rules. (Please, let us all take a moment to guffaw or belly laugh at the incredible irony here!)\n\n<strong>Muslims </strong>– They worship Muhammad and are against everything you know and love.\n\n<strong>Wiccans </strong>– WITCHCRAFT.\n\n<strong>Buddhists </strong>– They worship the jolly fat guy statues in restaurants. Maybe something about reincarnation? The Dalai Lama is offensive anyway.\n\n<strong>Hindus </strong>– Reincarnation. Need I say more? Also all the weird, thousands of gods thing. Jesus doesn’t like that.\n\n<strong>Agnostics </strong>– Are in denial. They have that God-shaped hole but don’t want to commit.\n\n<strong>Atheists </strong>– Are angry people who just refuse to see the logic in our beliefs and don\'t want to give up control.\n\nSo even though there is a huge group of self-identifying group of Christians in the world, and even though most of the Protestant denominations are nearly identical in doctrine and differ only in a few preferences, we can safely knock about 80% of them out of the running for Heaven because they aren’t Baptists? There is something desperately wrong when we are knocking out members of our own group to feel more secure in our own salvation. (Survivor, anyone?)\n\nThe ignorance of other cultures and belief systems around me did a lot of damage. Not only had I condensed the Holy World down to a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the people on this planet, but I unfairly discriminated against people of other religions because of my ignorance. Once I left the church I stopped being <em>afraid </em>of humanity and I started to see how absolutely colorful, diverse, and beautiful it is.\n\nPerhaps you can identify with this. Maybe when you read one of the names of the groups above your stomach turns just a little bit. What you need to remember is their beliefs are as sacred to them as yours are to you. When it comes down to it, they are human and they want the same basic things you want out of life. You might be surprised if you take the opportunity to learn a little bit about one of the groups you have presuppositions about.\n\nIt\'s easy: go rent/buy a book by someone who is of a different faith. “<a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Muslim-Next-Door-Quran-Media/dp/0974524565/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1318469568&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr0\" target=\"_blank\">The Muslim Next Door: The Qur\'an, the Media, and That Veil Thing</a>” by Sumbul Ali-Karamali, is a great example.  Maybe find <a href=\"http://ramblingtaoist.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">a blogger</a> and read what they have to say from personal experience about their faith. If you\'re really courageous, send them an email and talk with them about it! Watch <a href=\"http://www.netflix.com/Movie/A-Life-Apart-Hasidism-in-America/70018988?strkid=1451695563_0_0&amp;lnkctr=srchrd-sr&amp;strackid=73420d99b57c05b6_0_srl&amp;trkid=222336\" target=\"_blank\">a documentary</a>. You don’t have to believe it, you don’t have to like it, and you don’t have to condone it. But hearing other people’s stories might help you understand someone else’s true heart and help you find nuggets of truth in other people, other denominations, and other faiths.\n\nOpen your heart and start to see people how Jesus sees them: incredible, intricate, amazing people with beautiful hearts. Fall in love with humanity.','Where the Church Lost Me: Part II','','inherit','open','open','','1045-revision-4','','','2011-10-23 19:41:32','2011-10-24 02:41:32','',1045,'http://provoketive.com/2011/10/23/1045-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(317,1,'2011-10-04 13:12:26','2011-10-04 20:12:26',' ','','','publish','open','open','','317','','','2012-01-19 11:08:29','2012-01-19 19:08:29','',15,'http://provoketive.com/?p=317',21,'nav_menu_item','',0),(1047,38,'2011-10-23 19:34:52','2011-10-24 02:34:52','<p><em>This is post number two in my series about the six reasons why I left the church based off <a href=\"http://www.barna.org/teens-next-gen-articles/528-six-reasons-young-christians-leave-church\" target=\"_blank\">this article</a> by the Barna Group. This originally was supposed to have two reasons but once I got started I realized this needed its own post.</em></p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Reason #3: “They wrestle with the exclusive nature of Christianity.”</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\"I came to the point that I realized my theology condemns 92% of the world’s population. There\'s something wrong with that.\"</p>\r\n\r\n<p>This is a quote by <a href=\"http://crystalstmarielewis.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal St. Lewis</a>, who I had a chance to hear speak at <a href=\"http://www.outlawpreachers.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Outlaw Preachers</a> (re)Union 2011. With my strict Baptist upbringing it was more like 99% because anyone outside of our church was probably going to the bad place downstairs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>For me, the exclusive nature of the church did not come into conflict with reality in relation to the path of salvation (at least not really, more about this later); it showed up in the willful perpetuation of ignorance in regards to other religions, the denial of other denominations being in the family, and the indignation that flares up when you can find beauty in other religions. Here is just a small slice of how other denominations and religions were <strong>stereotyped </strong>and <strong>viewed incorrectly </strong>by my particular sect:</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Presbyterians </strong>– Liturgy? Pfffft. They’re doing it wrong. All that repetition means empty hearts and empty prayers.<br />\r\n<strong>Lutherans </strong>– They don’t drink coffee. It may as well be a different religion.<br />\r\n<strong>Methodists </strong>– No one really talked about them, but we’re sure they’re weird too.<br />\r\n<strong>Church of God</strong> – Female pastors!<br />\r\n<strong>Episcopals </strong>– They like the gays. (This denomination was particularly deemed dangerous, though no one was ever any more specific than “They’re into some weird stuff.”)<br />\r\n<strong>Pentecostal </strong>– They speak in tongues and like to dance. Do you need any more evidence?<br />\r\n<strong>Non-denomination churches</strong> – They can’t pick sides so they try to make everyone happy.<br />\r\n<strong>Catholics </strong>– “You do know they worship Mary, right?” And all they want to do is buy indulgences so they can sin. (Barely considered to be part of the Protestant branch. Get thee out of my Christian tree!)<br />\r\n<strong>Seventh Day Adventists</strong> – Something about a Watchtower and they think we all can become god or something.<br />\r\n<strong>Mormons </strong>– Salt Lake City, baby! They like to marry multiple women and the guy who wrote The Book or Mormon was a crazy.<br />\r\n<strong>Anglicans </strong>– Something to do with the old church. And they’re more or less Catholics.<br />\r\n<strong>Jews </strong>– We only like the Messianic ones. All the others only live by a bunch of rules and don’t love God, because you can’t love God through rules. (Please, let us all take a moment to guffaw or belly laugh at the incredible irony here!)<br />\r\n<strong>Muslims </strong>– They worship Muhammad and are against everything you know and love.<br />\r\n<strong>Wiccans </strong>– WITCHCRAFT.<br />\r\n<strong>Buddhists </strong>– They worship the jolly fat guy statues in restaurants. Maybe something about reincarnation? The Dalai Lama is offensive anyway.<br />\r\n<strong>Hindus </strong>– Reincarnation. Need I say more? Also all the weird, thousands of gods thing. Jesus doesn’t like that.<br />\r\n<strong>Agnostics </strong>– Are in denial. They have that God-shaped hole but don’t want to commit.<br />\r\n<strong>Atheists </strong>– Are angry people who just refuse to see the logic in our beliefs and don\'t want to give up control.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>So even though there is a huge group of self-identifying group of Christians in the world, and even though most of the Protestant denominations are nearly identical in doctrine and differ only in a few preferences, we can safely knock about 80% of them out of the running for Heaven because they aren’t Baptists? There is something desperately wrong when we are knocking out members of our own group to feel more secure in our own salvation. (Survivor, anyone?)</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The ignorance of other cultures and belief systems around me did a lot of damage. Not only had I condensed the Holy World down to a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the people on this planet, but I unfairly discriminated against people of other religions because of my ignorance. Once I left the church I stopped being <em>afraid </em>of humanity and I started to see how absolutely colorful, diverse, and beautiful it is.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Perhaps you can identify with this. Maybe when you read one of the names of the groups above your stomach turns just a little bit. What you need to remember is their beliefs are as sacred to them as yours are to you. They are human at the bottom and they want the same basic things you want out of life. You might be surprised if you take the opportunity to learn a little bit about one of the groups you have presuppositions about.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>It\'s easy: go rent/buy a book by someone who is of a different faith. “<a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Muslim-Next-Door-Quran-Media/dp/0974524565/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1318469568&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr0\" target=\"_blank\">The Muslim Next Door: The Qur\'an, the Media, and That Veil Thing</a>” by Sumbul Ali-Karamali, is a great example.  Maybe find <a href=\"http://ramblingtaoist.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">a blogger</a> and read what they have to say from personal experience about their faith. If you\'re really courageous, send them an email and talk with them about it! Watch <a href=\"http://www.netflix.com/Movie/A-Life-Apart-Hasidism-in-America/70018988?strkid=1451695563_0_0&amp;lnkctr=srchrd-sr&amp;strackid=73420d99b57c05b6_0_srl&amp;trkid=222336\" target=\"_blank\">a documentary</a>. You don’t have to believe it, you don’t have to like it, and you don’t have to condone it. But hearing other people’s stories might help you understand someone else’s true heart and help you find nuggets of truth in other people, other denominations, and other faiths.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Open your heart and start to see people how Jesus sees them: incredible, intricate, amazing people with beautiful hearts. Fall in love with humanity.</p>','Where the Church Lost Me: Part II','','inherit','open','open','','1045-revision-2','','','2011-10-23 19:34:52','2011-10-24 02:34:52','',1045,'http://provoketive.com/2011/10/23/1045-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(1048,38,'2011-10-23 19:40:24','2011-10-24 02:40:24','<em>This is post number two in my series about the six reasons why I left the church based off <a href=\"http://www.barna.org/teens-next-gen-articles/528-six-reasons-young-christians-leave-church\" target=\"_blank\">this article</a> by the Barna Group.</em>\n\n<strong>Reason #3: “They wrestle with the exclusive nature of Christianity.”</strong>\n<blockquote>\"I came to the point that I realized my theology condemns 92% of the world’s population. There\'s something wrong with that.\"</blockquote>\nThis is a quote by <a href=\"http://crystalstmarielewis.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal St. Lewis</a>, who I had a chance to hear speak at <a href=\"http://www.outlawpreachers.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Outlaw Preachers</a> (re)Union 2011. With my strict Baptist upbringing it was more like 99% because anyone outside of our church was probably going to the bad place downstairs.\n\nFor me, the exclusive nature of the church did not come into conflict with reality in relation to the path of salvation (at least not really, more about this later); it showed up in the willful perpetuation of ignorance in regards to other religions, the denial of other denominations being in the family, and the indignation that flares up when you talk about finding beauty in other religions. Here is just a small slice of how other denominations and religions were <strong>stereotyped </strong>and <strong>viewed incorrectly </strong>by my particular sect:\n\n<strong>Presbyterians </strong>– Liturgy? Pfffft. They’re doing it wrong. All that repetition means empty hearts and empty prayers.\n\n<strong>Lutherans </strong>– They don’t drink coffee. It may as well be a different religion.\n\n<strong>Methodists </strong>– No one really talked about them, but we’re sure they’re weird too.\n\n<strong>Church of God</strong> – Female pastors!\n\n<strong>Episcopals </strong>– They like the gays. (This denomination was particularly deemed dangerous, though no one was ever any more specific than “They’re into some weird stuff.”)\n\n<strong>Pentecostal </strong>– They speak in tongues and like to dance. Do you need any more evidence?\n\n<strong>Non-denomination churches</strong> – They can’t pick sides so they try to make everyone happy.\n\n<strong>Catholics </strong>– “You do know they worship Mary, right?” And all they want to do is buy indulgences so they can sin. (Barely considered to be part of the Protestant branch. Get thee out of my Christian tree!)\n\n<strong>Seventh Day Adventists</strong> – Something about a Watchtower and they think they all can become god or something.\n\n<strong>Mormons </strong>– Salt Lake City, baby! They like to marry multiple women and the guy who wrote The Book or Mormon was a crazy.\n\n<strong>Anglicans </strong>– Something to do with the old church. And they’re more or less Catholics.\n\n<strong>Jews </strong>– We only like the Messianic ones. All the others only live by a bunch of rules and don’t love God, because you can’t love God through rules. (Please, let us all take a moment to guffaw or belly laugh at the incredible irony here!)\n\n<strong>Muslims </strong>– They worship Muhammad and are against everything you know and love.\n\n<strong>Wiccans </strong>– WITCHCRAFT.\n\n<strong>Buddhists </strong>– They worship the jolly fat guy statues in restaurants. Maybe something about reincarnation? The Dalai Lama is offensive anyway.\n\n<strong>Hindus </strong>– Reincarnation. Need I say more? Also all the weird, thousands of gods thing. Jesus doesn’t like that.\n\n<strong>Agnostics </strong>– Are in denial. They have that God-shaped hole but don’t want to commit.\n\n<strong>Atheists </strong>– Are angry people who just refuse to see the logic in our beliefs and don\'t want to give up control.\n\nSo even though there is a huge group of self-identifying group of Christians in the world, and even though most of the Protestant denominations are nearly identical in doctrine and differ only in a few preferences, we can safely knock about 80% of them out of the running for Heaven because they aren’t Baptists? There is something desperately wrong when we are knocking out members of our own group to feel more secure in our own salvation. (Survivor, anyone?)\n\nThe ignorance of other cultures and belief systems around me did a lot of damage. Not only had I condensed the Holy World down to a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the people on this planet, but I unfairly discriminated against people of other religions because of my ignorance. Once I left the church I stopped being <em>afraid </em>of humanity and I started to see how absolutely colorful, diverse, and beautiful it is.\n\nPerhaps you can identify with this. Maybe when you read one of the names of the groups above your stomach turns just a little bit. What you need to remember is their beliefs are as sacred to them as yours are to you. When it comes down to it, they are human and they want the same basic things you want out of life. You might be surprised if you take the opportunity to learn a little bit about one of the groups you have presuppositions about.\n\nIt\'s easy: go rent/buy a book by someone who is of a different faith. “<a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Muslim-Next-Door-Quran-Media/dp/0974524565/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1318469568&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr0\" target=\"_blank\">The Muslim Next Door: The Qur\'an, the Media, and That Veil Thing</a>” by Sumbul Ali-Karamali, is a great example.  Maybe find <a href=\"http://ramblingtaoist.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">a blogger</a> and read what they have to say from personal experience about their faith. If you\'re really courageous, send them an email and talk with them about it! Watch <a href=\"http://www.netflix.com/Movie/A-Life-Apart-Hasidism-in-America/70018988?strkid=1451695563_0_0&amp;lnkctr=srchrd-sr&amp;strackid=73420d99b57c05b6_0_srl&amp;trkid=222336\" target=\"_blank\">a documentary</a>. You don’t have to believe it, you don’t have to like it, and you don’t have to condone it. But hearing other people’s stories might help you understand someone else’s true heart and help you find nuggets of truth in other people, other denominations, and other faiths.\n\nOpen your heart and start to see people how Jesus sees them: incredible, intricate, amazing people with beautiful hearts. Fall in love with humanity.','Where the Church Lost Me: Part II','','inherit','open','open','','1045-revision-3','','','2011-10-23 19:40:24','2011-10-24 02:40:24','',1045,'http://provoketive.com/2011/10/23/1045-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(1046,38,'2011-10-23 19:33:55','2011-10-24 02:33:55','<p><em>This is post number two in my series about the six reasons why I left the church based off <a href=\"http://www.barna.org/teens-next-gen-articles/528-six-reasons-young-christians-leave-church\" target=\"_blank\">this article</a> by the Barna Group. This originally was supposed to have two reasons but once I got started I realized this needed its own post.</em>\n\n<p><strong>Reason #3: “They wrestle with the exclusive nature of Christianity.”</strong>\n\n<p>\"I came to the point that I realized my theology condemns 92% of the world’s population. There\'s something wrong with that.\"\n\n<p>This is a quote by <a href=\"http://crystalstmarielewis.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal St. Lewis</a>, who I had a chance to hear speak at <a href=\"http://www.outlawpreachers.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Outlaw Preachers</a> (re)Union 2011. With my strict Baptist upbringing it was more like 99% because anyone outside of our church was probably going to the bad place downstairs.\n\n<p>For me, the exclusive nature of the church did not come into conflict with reality in relation to the path of salvation (at least not really, more about this later); it showed up in the willful perpetuation of ignorance in regards to other religions, the denial of other denominations being in the family, and the indignation that flares up when you can find beauty in other religions. Here is just a small slice of how other denominations and religions were <strong>stereotyped </strong>and <strong>viewed incorrectly </strong>by my particular sect:\n\n<p><strong>Presbyterians </strong>– Liturgy? Pfffft. They’re doing it wrong. All that repetition means empty hearts and empty prayers.<br />\n<strong>Lutherans </strong>– They don’t drink coffee. It may as well be a different religion.<br />\n<strong>Methodists </strong>– No one really talked about them, but we’re sure they’re weird too.<br />\n<strong>Church of God</strong> – Female pastors!<br />\n<strong>Episcopals </strong>– They like the gays. (This denomination was particularly deemed dangerous, though no one was ever any more specific than “They’re into some weird stuff.”)<br />\n<strong>Pentecostal </strong>– They speak in tongues and like to dance. Do you need any more evidence?<br />\n<strong>Non-denomination churches</strong> – They can’t pick sides so they try to make everyone happy.<br />\n<strong>Catholics </strong>– “You do know they worship Mary, right?” And all they want to do is buy indulgences so they can sin. (Barely considered to be part of the Protestant branch. Get thee out of my Christian tree!)<br />\n<strong>Seventh Day Adventists</strong> – Something about a Watchtower and they think we all can become god or something.<br />\n<strong>Mormons </strong>– Salt Lake City, baby! They like to marry multiple women and the guy who wrote The Book or Mormon was a crazy.<br />\n<strong>Anglicans </strong>– Something to do with the old church. And they’re more or less Catholics.<br />\n<strong>Jews </strong>– We only like the Messianic ones. All the others only live by a bunch of rules and don’t love God, because you can’t love God through rules. (Please, let us all take a moment to guffaw or belly laugh at the incredible irony here!)<br />\n<strong>Muslims </strong>– They worship Muhammad and are against everything you know and love.<br />\n<strong>Wiccans </strong>– WITCHCRAFT.<br />\n<strong>Buddhists </strong>– They worship the jolly fat guy statues in restaurants. Maybe something about reincarnation? The Dalai Lama is offensive anyway.<br />\n<strong>Hindus </strong>– Reincarnation. Need I say more? Also all the weird, thousands of gods thing. Jesus doesn’t like that.<br />\n<strong>Agnostics </strong>– Are in denial. They have that God-shaped hole but don’t want to commit.<br />\n&gt;<strong>Atheists </strong>– Are angry people who just refuse to see the logic in our beliefs and don\'t want to give up control.\n\nSo even though there is a huge group of self-identifying group of Christians in the world, and even though most of the Protestant denominations are nearly identical in doctrine and differ only in a few preferences, we can safely knock about 80% of them out of the running for Heaven because they aren’t Baptists? There is something desperately wrong when we are knocking out members of our own group to feel more secure in our own salvation. (Survivor, anyone?)\n\nThe ignorance of other cultures and belief systems around me did a lot of damage. Not only had I condensed the Holy World down to a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the people on this planet, but I unfairly discriminated against people of other religions because of my ignorance. Once I left the church I stopped being <em>afraid </em>of humanity and I started to see how absolutely colorful, diverse, and beautiful it is.\n\nPerhaps you can identify with this. Maybe when you read one of the names of the groups above your stomach turns just a little bit. What you need to remember is their beliefs are as sacred to them as yours are to you. They are human at the bottom and they want the same basic things you want out of life. You might be surprised if you take the opportunity to learn a little bit about one of the groups you have presuppositions about.\n\nIt\'s easy: go rent/buy a book by someone who is of a different faith. “<a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Muslim-Next-Door-Quran-Media/dp/0974524565/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1318469568&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr0\" target=\"_blank\">The Muslim Next Door: The Qur\'an, the Media, and That Veil Thing</a>” by Sumbul Ali-Karamali, is a great example.  Maybe find <a href=\"http://ramblingtaoist.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">a blogger</a> and read what they have to say from personal experience about their faith. If you\'re really courageous, send them an email and talk with them about it! Watch <a href=\"http://www.netflix.com/Movie/A-Life-Apart-Hasidism-in-America/70018988?strkid=1451695563_0_0&amp;lnkctr=srchrd-sr&amp;strackid=73420d99b57c05b6_0_srl&amp;trkid=222336\" target=\"_blank\">a documentary</a>. You don’t have to believe it, you don’t have to like it, and you don’t have to condone it. But hearing other people’s stories might help you understand someone else’s true heart and help you find nuggets of truth in other people, other denominations, and other faiths.\n\nOpen your heart and start to see people how Jesus sees them: incredible, intricate, amazing people with beautiful hearts. Fall in love with humanity.</div>','Where the Church Lost Me: Part II','','inherit','open','open','','1045-revision','','','2011-10-23 19:33:55','2011-10-24 02:33:55','',1045,'http://provoketive.com/2011/10/23/1045-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(1045,38,'2011-10-26 08:00:25','2011-10-26 15:00:25','<em>This is post number two in my series about the six reasons why I left the church based off of the article \"<a href=\"http://www.barna.org/teens-next-gen-articles/528-six-reasons-young-christians-leave-church\" target=\"_blank\">Six Reasons Young Christians Leave Church</a>\" by the Barna Group.</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Reason #3: “They wrestle with the exclusive nature of Christianity.”</strong>\r\n<blockquote>\"I came to the point that I realized my theology condemns 92% of the world’s population. There\'s something wrong with that.\"</blockquote>\r\nThis is a quote by <a href=\"http://crystalstmarielewis.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal St. Lewis</a>, who I had a chance to hear speak at <a href=\"http://www.outlawpreachers.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Outlaw Preachers</a> (re)Union 2011. With my strict Baptist upbringing it was more like 99% because anyone outside of our church was probably going to the bad place downstairs.\r\n\r\nFor me, the exclusive nature of the church did not come into conflict with reality in relation to the path of salvation (at least not really, more about this later); it showed up in the willful perpetuation of ignorance in regards to other religions, the denial of other denominations being in the family, and the indignation that flares up when you talk about finding beauty in other religions. Here is just a small slice of how other denominations and religions were <strong>stereotyped </strong>and <strong>viewed incorrectly </strong>by my particular sect:\r\n\r\n<strong>Presbyterians </strong>– Liturgy? Pfffft. They’re doing it wrong. All that repetition means empty hearts and empty prayers.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lutherans </strong>– They don’t drink coffee. It may as well be a different religion.\r\n\r\n<strong>Methodists </strong>– No one really talked about them, but we’re sure they’re weird too.\r\n\r\n<strong>Church of God</strong> – Female pastors!\r\n\r\n<strong>Episcopal </strong>– They like the gays. (This denomination was particularly deemed dangerous, though no one was ever any more specific than “They’re into some weird stuff.”)\r\n\r\n<strong>Pentecostal </strong>– They speak in tongues and like to dance. Do you need any more evidence?\r\n\r\n<strong>Non-denomination churches</strong> – They can’t pick sides so they try to make everyone happy.\r\n\r\n<strong>Catholics </strong>– “You do know they worship Mary, right?” And all they want to do is buy indulgences so they can sin. (Barely considered to be part of the Protestant branch. Get thee out of my Christian tree!)\r\n\r\n<strong>Seventh Day Adventists</strong> – Something about a Watchtower and they think they all can become god or something.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mormons </strong>– Salt Lake City, baby! They like to marry multiple women and the guy who wrote The Book or Mormon was a crazy.\r\n\r\n<strong>Anglicans </strong>– Something to do with the old church. And they’re more or less Catholics.\r\n\r\n<strong>Jews </strong>– We only like the Messianic ones. All the others only live by a bunch of rules and don’t love God, because you can’t love God through rules. (Please, let us all take a moment to guffaw or belly laugh at the incredible irony here!)\r\n\r\n<strong>Muslims </strong>– They worship Muhammad and are against everything you know and love.\r\n\r\n<strong>Wiccans </strong>– WITCHCRAFT.\r\n\r\n<strong>Buddhists </strong>– They worship the jolly fat guy statues in restaurants. Maybe something about reincarnation? The Dalai Lama is offensive anyway.\r\n\r\n<strong>Hindus </strong>– Reincarnation. Need I say more? Also all the weird, thousands of gods thing. Jesus doesn’t like that.\r\n\r\n<strong>Agnostics </strong>– Are in denial. They have that God-shaped hole but don’t want to commit.\r\n\r\n<strong>Atheists </strong>– Are angry people who just refuse to see the logic in our beliefs and don\'t want to give up control.\r\n\r\nSo even though there is a huge group of self-identifying group of Christians in the world, and even though most of the Protestant denominations are nearly identical in doctrine and differ only in a few preferences, we can safely knock about 80% of them out of the running for Heaven because they aren’t Baptists? There is something desperately wrong when we are knocking out members of our own group to feel more secure in our own salvation. (Survivor, anyone?)\r\n\r\nThe ignorance of other cultures and belief systems around me did a lot of damage. Not only had I condensed the Holy World down to a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the people on this planet, but I unfairly discriminated against people of other religions because of my ignorance. Once I left the church I stopped being <em>afraid </em>of humanity and I started to see how absolutely colorful, diverse, and beautiful it is.\r\n\r\nPerhaps you can identify with this. Maybe when you read one of the names of the groups above your stomach turns just a little bit. What you need to remember is their beliefs are as sacred to them as yours are to you. When it comes down to it, they are human and they want the same basic things you want out of life. You might be surprised if you take the opportunity to learn a little bit about one of the groups you have presuppositions about.\r\n\r\nIt\'s easy: go rent/buy a book by someone who is of a different faith. “<a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Muslim-Next-Door-Quran-Media/dp/0974524565/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1318469568&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr0\" target=\"_blank\">The Muslim Next Door: The Qur\'an, the Media, and That Veil Thing</a>” by Sumbul Ali-Karamali, is a great example.  Maybe find <a href=\"http://ramblingtaoist.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">a blogger</a> and read what they have to say from personal experience about their faith. If you\'re really courageous, send them an email and talk with them about it! Watch <a href=\"http://www.netflix.com/Movie/A-Life-Apart-Hasidism-in-America/70018988?strkid=1451695563_0_0&amp;lnkctr=srchrd-sr&amp;strackid=73420d99b57c05b6_0_srl&amp;trkid=222336\" target=\"_blank\">a documentary</a>. You don’t have to believe it, you don’t have to like it, and you don’t have to condone it. But hearing other people’s stories might help you understand someone else’s true heart and help you find nuggets of truth in other people, other denominations, and other faiths.\r\n\r\nOpen your heart and start to see people how Jesus sees them: incredible, intricate, amazing people with beautiful hearts. Fall in love with humanity.\r\n\r\n<em>Next I\'ll be talking about my church experience left me with a warped, simplistic and judgmental view of sexuality.</em>','Where the Church Lost Me: Part II','','publish','open','open','','where-the-church-lost-me-part-ii','','','2011-10-24 09:30:21','2011-10-24 16:30:21','',0,'http://provoketive.com/?p=1045',0,'post','',0),(1044,38,'2011-10-23 19:28:04','2011-10-24 02:28:04','Growing up in youth group, we were always lectured about how awful it was that kids would go off to college and then leave church. At the time I thought it was ridiculous that anyone would leave, but within three years I found myself standing on the stage in the sanctuary at my church graduation ceremony relieved that I wouldn’t have to enter those church doors for a long time.\n\nHow did that happened? Why did I have such a drastic change in heart? I’ve spent a long time trying to articulate what precisely pushed me away, so when the article “<a href=\"http://www.barna.org/teens-next-gen-articles/528-six-reasons-young-christians-leave-church\" target=\"_blank\">Six Reasons Young Christians Leave Church</a>” by the Barna Group showed up in my RSS feed, it immediately identified with it because I lived their research.\n\nThis is the first of six posts breaking down the reasons given by the Barna Group talking about how my own experience reflected each of them.\n\n<strong>Reason #1: “Teens’ and twentysomethings’ experience of Christianity is shallow.”</strong>\n\nI was born into a very Christian family, so from the moment I left the womb I was in church. Flannel graphs, Sunday School, Big Church, the whole nine yards. From the church nursery all the way up through most of high school I was at church every time the doors were open. (Towards the end of high school I was there six times a week.) As my father-in-law would say, \"They learned you well.\" By the time I was in early middle school I could give a full dissertation on any issue and perfectly repeat the canned answers about my faith that I had been fed from the moment I had been born. So, when I got to youth group (grades 9-12) and the lessons didn’t go any deeper than “stay in church,” “don’t listen to secular music,” “don’t do drugs” and “don’t have sex,” I had a difficult time staying connected. I had learned all of that back in elementary school. Why were we still talking about this?\n\nI really needed leaders who would help me work through the questions that come with adolescence. I was wrestling with reality, mortality, myself, my body, my parents, and faith, and all they could talk about was how I needed to do my \"devos\". All the questions that are a part of being a teenager went unanswered. Why am I here? (“Because Jesus created us.”  Yeah, thanks. That doesn’t help me. Why am I actually here? Why do I matter at all? Why should I even bother living?) Why does what I do even matter? Why should I believe any of this? Why can’t I just go be a monk?\n\nAnyone who remembers being a teenager understands that you go through a huge shift in how you understand life. Everything becomes much more important, serious, and you start to question everything. When no one addressed those kinds of questions or made room for us to at least dialogue about them, I started feeling discontent because no one cared about the questions, which caused me to believe that none of them really cared about what state of mind I was in.\n\n<strong>Reason #2: “Churches come across as antagonistic to science.”</strong>\n\nThis, of the six reasons I\'ll be talking about, was the least influential for me, but it was still was important. The place this problem showed up the most was how incredibly dogmatic my church was about creation.\n\nOne of the reasons why I broke up with one of my ex-boyfriends was because of our differing views on creation. He believed in creation evolution, which is where views of evolution and creation can intersect. It was completely incompatible with my views on creation (a literal seven-day creation) at the time, so I blocked him out. I realize now how silly that was.\n\nI was not alone though because there was absolutely no room for that in the church I used to go to for other theories. There was zero discussion about them. If you didn’t believe in a literal 24-hour seven-day creation you may as well have said you weren’t Christian.\n\nThis extended into the rest of the science realm. For example, my church leaders were completely dismissive of things like global warming because they didn’t think \"God would allow us to do that to ourselves\". And don\'t even talk about the green movement because that was all hogwash by those tree-hugging environmentalists who had anti-god agendas. The blogger over from <a href=\"http://bigwhiteogre.blogspot.com/2010/09/christianitys-anti-science-conditioning.html\" target=\"_blank\">Prove Me Wrong</a> captured this perfectly:\n<blockquote>\"Climate change? Of course that was bunk. Just like evolutionists have some sort of God hating agenda and the scientific method is not capable of correcting for such biases, in the same way global warming types basically want to run our lives like Stalinist commissars. I will resist their encroachments on my liberty. [...] The lesson I\'ve learned from my past is that rejecting the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community is unlikely to lead to truth. Sure, it\'s possible that they can all be wrong, but is it likely? And what method of knowing truth is more reliable than following scientific consensus? They\'ll be wrong sometimes. But who won\'t be wrong sometimes?\"</blockquote>\nThe way I was taught displayed an unwillingness to listen to scientific advancements that make people slightly uncomfortable. They would simply brush them off and deny the need to protect our resources and respect the earth we live on. (It\'s not easy being green!) I mean, because God wouldn’t <em>actually </em>let us be our own demise, so on with bulldozing the rainforests!\n\nIt is one more area where the Christians I knew were aggressive and unwilling to have an intellectual conversation. This is well-known in secular circles as one of The Hot Button Topics that you shouldn’t bring up under any circumstances. There is something very wrong with that. When I started college I didn\'t understand why people thought fundamentalists were close minded. This is a reason among many others.\n\nCan\'t we be adults about this? Can\'t we sit down and hear each other out without attacking each other or immediately trying to shut down everyone else\'s arguments? Can\'t we engage and share our viewpoints and listen to each other? Can\'t we try to learn about other people\'s perspective and use that to understand other people better?\n\nContrary to the popular phrase, I promise your brain won\'t fall out of your head if you dare to talk to someone honestly about a different view of how we all got here.\n\n<em>Check back in for part II where I’ll be covering the difficulty of the exclusive nature of Christianity.</em>','Where the Church Lost Me: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','1037-revision-6','','','2011-10-23 19:28:04','2011-10-24 02:28:04','',1037,'http://provoketive.com/2011/10/23/1037-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(1040,38,'2011-10-23 19:12:25','2011-10-24 02:12:25','<p>Growing up in youth group, we were always lectured about how awful it was that kids would go off to college and then leave church. At the time I thought it was ridiculous that anyone would leave, but within three years I found myself standing on the stage in the sanctuary at my church graduation ceremony relieved that I wouldn’t have to enter those church doors for a long time.</p>\n\n<p>How did that happened? Why did I have such a drastic change in heart? I’ve spent a long time trying to articulate what precisely pushed me away, so when the article “<a href=\"http://www.barna.org/teens-next-gen-articles/528-six-reasons-young-christians-leave-church\" target=\"_blank\">Six Reasons Young Christians Leave Church</a>” by the Barna Group showed up in my RSS feed, it immediately identified with it because I lived their research.</p>\n\n<p>This is the first of three posts breaking down each reason given by the Barna Group and talk about how my own experience reflected each of them.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Reason #1: “Teens’ and twentysomethings’ experience of Christianity is shallow.”</strong></p>\n\n<p>I was born into a very Christian family, so from the moment I left the womb I was in church. Flannel graphs, Sunday School, Big Church, the whole nine yards. From the church nursery all the way up through most of high school I was at church every time the doors were open. (Towards the end of high school I was there six times a week.) They learned me well. By the time I was in early middle school I could give a full dissertation on any issue and perfectly repeat the canned answers about my faith that I had been fed from the moment I had been born. So, when I got to youth group (grades 9-12) and the lessons didn’t go any deeper than “stay in church,” “don’t listen to secular music,” “don’t do drugs” and “don’t have sex,” I had a difficult time staying connected. I had learned all of that back in elementary school. Why are we still talking about this?</p>\n\n<p>I really needed leaders who would help me work through the questions that come with adolescence. I was wrestling with reality, mortality, myself, my body, my parents, and faith, and all they could talk about was how I needed to do my \"devos\". All the questions that are a part of being a teenager went unanswered. <em>Why am I here? (“Because Jesus created us.”  Yeah, thanks. That doesn’t help me. Why am I actually here? Why do I matter at all? Why should I even bother living?) Why does what I do even matter? Why should I believe any of this? Why can’t I just go be a monk?</p>\n\n<p>Anyone who remembers being a teenager understands that you go through a huge shift in how you understand life. Everything becomes much more important, serious, and you start to question everything. When no one addressed those kinds of questions or made room for us to at least dialogue about them, I started feeling discontent because no one cared about the questions, which caused me to believe that none of them really cared about what state of mind I was in.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Reason #2: “Churches come across as antagonistic to science.”</strong></p>\n\n<p>This, of the six reasons I\'ll be talking about, was the least influential for me, but it was still was important. The place this problem showed up the most was how incredibly dogmatic my church was about creation.</p>\n\n<p>One of the reasons why I broke up with one of my ex-boyfriends was because of our differing views on creation. He believed in creation evolution, which is where views of evolution and creation can intersect. It was completely incompatible with my views on creation at the time, so I blocked him out. I realize now how silly that was.</p>\n\n<p>I was not alone though because there was absolutely no room for that in the church I used to go to for other theories. There was zero discussion about them. If you didn’t believe in a literal 24-hour seven-day creation you may as well have said you weren’t Christian.</p>\n\n<p>This extended into the rest of the science realm. For example, my church leaders were completely dismissive of things like global warming because they didn’t think \"God would allow us to do that to ourselves\". And don\'t even talk about the green movement because was all hogwash by those tree-hugging environmentalists who had anti-god agendas. The blogger over from <a href=\"http://bigwhiteogre.blogspot.com/2010/09/christianitys-anti-science-conditioning.html\" target=\"_blank\">Prove Me Wrong</a> captured this perfectly:</p>\n\n<p>\"Climate change? Of course that was bunk. Just like evolutionists have some sort of God hating agenda and the scientific method is not capable of correcting for such biases, in the same way global warming types basically want to run our lives like Stalinist commissars. I will resist their encroachments on my liberty. [...] The lesson I\'ve learned from my past is that rejecting the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community is unlikely to lead to truth. Sure, it\'s possible that they can all be wrong, but is it likely? And what method of knowing truth is more reliable than following scientific consensus? They\'ll be wrong sometimes. But who won\'t be wrong sometimes?\"</p>\n\n<p>The way I was taught displayed an unwillingness to listen to scientific advancements that make people slightly uncomfortable. They would simply brush them off and deny the need to protect our resources and respect the earth we live on. (It\'s not easy being green!) I mean, because God wouldn’t <em>actually </em>let us be our own demise, so on with bulldozing the rainforests!</p>\n\n<p>It is one more area where the Christians I knew were aggressive and unwilling to have an intellectual conversation. This is well known in secular circles as one of The Hot Button Topics that you shouldn’t bring up under any circumstances. There is something very wrong with that. When I started college I didn\'t understand why people thought fundamentalists were close minded. This is a reason among many others.</p>\n\n<p>Can\'t we be adults about this? Can\'t we sit down and hear each other out without attacking each other or immediately trying to shut down everyone else\'s arguments? Can\'t we engage and share our viewpoints and listen to each other? Can\'t we try to learn about other people\'s perspective and use that to understand other people better?</p>\n\n<p>Contrary to the popular phrase, I promise your brain won\'t fall out of your head if you dare to talk to someone honestly about a different view of how we all got here.</p>\n\n<p><em>Next I’ll be covering the next two reasons: the unhealthy views toward sexuality and the difficulty of the exclusive nature of Christianity.</em></p>','Where the Church Lost Me: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','1037-revision-2','','','2011-10-23 19:12:25','2011-10-24 02:12:25','',1037,'http://provoketive.com/2011/10/23/1037-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(330,1,'2011-10-04 13:28:53','2011-10-04 20:28:53',' ','','','publish','open','open','','330','','','2012-01-19 11:08:30','2012-01-19 19:08:30','',19,'http://provoketive.com/?p=330',30,'nav_menu_item','',0),(331,1,'2011-10-04 13:28:53','2011-10-04 20:28:53',' ','','','publish','open','open','','331','','','2012-01-19 11:08:30','2012-01-19 19:08:30','',19,'http://provoketive.com/?p=331',28,'nav_menu_item','',0),(332,1,'2011-10-04 13:28:53','2011-10-04 20:28:53',' ','','','publish','open','open','','332','','','2012-01-19 11:08:29','2012-01-19 19:08:29','',19,'http://provoketive.com/?p=332',27,'nav_menu_item','',0),(333,1,'2011-10-04 13:29:53','2011-10-04 20:29:53',' ','','','publish','open','open','','333','','','2012-01-19 11:08:31','2012-01-19 19:08:31','',20,'http://provoketive.com/?p=333',41,'nav_menu_item','',0),(334,1,'2011-10-04 13:42:07','2011-10-04 20:42:07','http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/7.jpg','7.jpg','','inherit','open','open','','7-jpg','','','2011-10-04 13:42:07','2011-10-04 20:42:07','',0,'http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/7.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(335,1,'2011-10-04 13:44:10','2011-10-04 20:44:10','http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/background.png','background.png','','inherit','open','open','','background-png','','','2011-10-04 13:44:10','2011-10-04 20:44:10','',0,'http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/background.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(336,1,'2011-10-04 13:47:52','2011-10-04 20:47:52','http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/bgbg.png','bgbg.png','','inherit','open','open','','bgbg-png','','','2011-10-04 13:47:52','2011-10-04 20:47:52','',0,'http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/bgbg.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(337,1,'2011-10-04 13:51:38','2011-10-04 20:51:38','http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/background1.png','background1.png','','inherit','open','open','','background1-png','','','2011-10-04 13:51:38','2011-10-04 20:51:38','',0,'http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/background1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(338,1,'2011-10-04 14:04:45','2011-10-04 21:04:45','http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/background2.png','background2.png','','inherit','open','open','','background2-png','','','2011-10-04 14:04:45','2011-10-04 21:04:45','',0,'http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/background2.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(339,1,'2011-05-12 20:59:33','2011-05-12 20:59:33','','Submit To EV','','inherit','open','open','','28-revision','','','2011-05-12 20:59:33','2011-05-12 20:59:33','',28,'http://provoketive.com/2011/05/12/28-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(340,1,'2011-05-12 20:58:12','2011-05-12 20:58:12','','Support EV','','inherit','open','open','','27-revision','','','2011-05-12 20:58:12','2011-05-12 20:58:12','',27,'http://provoketive.com/2011/05/12/27-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(341,1,'2011-10-04 14:25:11','2011-10-04 21:25:11','','Support Provoketive','','inherit','open','open','','27-revision-2','','','2011-10-04 14:25:11','2011-10-04 21:25:11','',27,'http://provoketive.com/2011/10/04/27-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(1036,0,'2011-10-23 17:13:01','2011-10-24 00:13:01','Justice &amp; Culture\n<!--more-->\nAUTHOR: Cynthia R. Nielsen\nAUTHOR EMAIL: cynthia.nielsen@gmail.com\nAUTHOR URL: http://percaritatem.com\nSUBJECT: Provoketive Magazine Writing For Provoketive\nIP: 99.66.177.183\nArray\n(\n    [Name] =&gt; Cynthia R. Nielsen\n    [Email] =&gt; cynthia.nielsen@gmail.com\n    [Existing Blog or Website] =&gt; percaritatem.com\n    [List the topic you are interested writing about] =&gt; Justice &amp; Culture\n    [Current or New WordPress Login Name (We\'ll send you a password.)] =&gt; tainaxrista\n)\n','Cynthia R. Nielsen - 2011-10-23 17:13:01','','publish','open','open','','a4ad2c14ff59fd85a1cb10909e655df2','','','2011-10-23 17:13:01','2011-10-24 00:13:01','',358,'http://provoketive.com/?post_type=feedback&p=1036',0,'feedback','',0),(1037,38,'2011-10-24 09:40:19','2011-10-24 16:40:19','Growing up in youth group, we were always lectured about how awful it was that kids would go off to college and then leave church. At the time I thought it was ridiculous that anyone would leave, but within three years I found myself standing on the stage in the sanctuary at my church graduation ceremony relieved that I wouldn’t have to enter those church doors for a long time.\r\n\r\nHow did that happened? Why did I have such a drastic change in heart? I’ve spent a long time trying to articulate what precisely pushed me away, so when the article “<a href=\"http://www.barna.org/teens-next-gen-articles/528-six-reasons-young-christians-leave-church\" target=\"_blank\">Six Reasons Young Christians Leave Church</a>” by the Barna Group showed up in my RSS feed, it immediately identified with it because I lived their research.\r\n\r\nThis is the first of six posts breaking down the reasons given by the Barna Group talking about how my own experience reflected each of them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Reason #1: “Teens’ and twentysomethings’ experience of Christianity is shallow.”</strong>\r\n\r\nI was born into a very Christian family, so from the moment I left the womb I was in church. Flannel graphs, Sunday School, Big Church, the whole nine yards. From the church nursery all the way up through most of high school I was at church every time the doors were open. (Towards the end of high school I was there six times a week.) As my father-in-law would say, \"They learned you well.\" By the time I was in early middle school I could give a full dissertation on any issue and perfectly repeat the canned answers about my faith that I had been fed from the moment I had been born. So, when I got to youth group (grades 9-12) and the lessons didn’t go any deeper than “stay in church,” “don’t listen to secular music,” “don’t do drugs” and “don’t have sex,” I had a difficult time staying connected. I had learned all of that back in elementary school. Why were we still talking about this?\r\n\r\nI really needed leaders who would help me work through the questions that come with adolescence. I was wrestling with reality, mortality, myself, my body, my parents, and faith, and all they could talk about was how I needed to do my \"devos\". All the questions that are a part of being a teenager went unanswered. Why am I here? (“Because Jesus created us.”  Yeah, thanks. That doesn’t help me. Why am I actually here? Why do I matter at all? Why should I even bother living?) Why does what I do even matter? Why should I believe any of this? Why can’t I just go be a monk?\r\n\r\nAnyone who remembers being a teenager understands that you go through a huge shift in how you understand life. Everything becomes much more important, serious, and you start to question everything. When no one addressed those kinds of questions or made room for us to at least dialogue about them, I started feeling discontent because no one cared about the questions, which caused me to believe that none of them really cared about what state of mind I was in.\r\n\r\n<strong>Reason #2: “Churches come across as antagonistic to science.”</strong>\r\n\r\nThis, of the six reasons I\'ll be talking about, was the least influential for me, but it was still was important. The place this problem showed up the most was how incredibly dogmatic my church was about creation.\r\n\r\nOne of the reasons why I broke up with one of my ex-boyfriends was because of our differing views on creation. He believed in creation evolution, which is where views of evolution and creation can intersect. It was completely incompatible with my views on creation (a literal seven-day creation) at the time, so I blocked him out. I realize now how silly that was.\r\n\r\nI was not alone though because there was absolutely no room for that in the church I used to go to for other theories. There was zero discussion about them. If you didn’t believe in a literal 24-hour seven-day creation you may as well have said you weren’t Christian.\r\n\r\nThis extended into the rest of the science realm. For example, my church leaders were completely dismissive of things like global warming because they didn’t think \"God would allow us to do that to ourselves\". And don\'t even talk about the green movement because that was all hogwash by those tree-hugging environmentalists who had anti-god agendas. The blogger over from <a href=\"http://bigwhiteogre.blogspot.com/2010/09/christianitys-anti-science-conditioning.html\" target=\"_blank\">Prove Me Wrong</a> captured this perfectly:\r\n<blockquote>\"Climate change? Of course that was bunk. Just like evolutionists have some sort of God hating agenda and the scientific method is not capable of correcting for such biases, in the same way global warming types basically want to run our lives like Stalinist commissars. I will resist their encroachments on my liberty. [...] The lesson I\'ve learned from my past is that rejecting the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community is unlikely to lead to truth. Sure, it\'s possible that they can all be wrong, but is it likely? And what method of knowing truth is more reliable than following scientific consensus? They\'ll be wrong sometimes. But who won\'t be wrong sometimes?\"</blockquote>\r\nThe way I was taught displayed an unwillingness to listen to scientific advancements that make people slightly uncomfortable. They would simply brush them off and deny the need to protect our resources and respect the earth we live on. (It\'s not easy being green!) I mean, because God wouldn’t <em>actually </em>let us be our own demise, so on with bulldozing the rainforests!\r\n\r\nIt is one more area where the Christians I knew were aggressive and unwilling to have an intellectual conversation. This is well-known in secular circles as one of The Hot Button Topics that you shouldn’t bring up under any circumstances. There is something very wrong with that. When I started college I didn\'t understand why people thought fundamentalists were close minded. This is a reason among many others.\r\n\r\nCan\'t we be adults about this? Can\'t we sit down and hear each other out without attacking each other or immediately trying to shut down everyone else\'s arguments? Can\'t we engage and share our viewpoints and listen to each other? Can\'t we try to learn about other people\'s perspective and use that to understand other people better?\r\n\r\nContrary to the popular phrase, I promise your brain won\'t fall out of your head if you dare to talk to someone honestly about a different view of how we all got here.\r\n\r\n<em>Check back in for part II where I’ll be covering the difficulty of the exclusive nature of Christianity.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Photo Credit: <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/roome/\">Lakewentworth</a></em>','Where the Church Lost Me: Part I','','publish','open','open','','where-the-church-lost-me-part-i','','','2011-10-24 09:41:00','2011-10-24 16:41:00','',0,'http://provoketive.com/?p=1037',0,'post','',2),(1854,1,'2011-11-06 14:24:52','2011-11-06 22:24:52','Eid Al Adha is celebrated by Muslims around the world today. The number of Muslims in the United States is estimated in the millions, many quiet about their faith for fear of repercussions and misunderstanding. Learning about the truth claims of this faith is an important piece to building bridges. Just as Christians do not want to be stereotyped, so it is with Muslims. Stereotyping puts people into a sealed box, disallowing real conversation and putting up a barrier to grace and understanding.\r\n\r\nOur family spent many years living in the Muslim world and as I think about this celebration for Muslims, I am taken back to our years in Cairo where we learned valuable lessons on community and faith, one time through the love of a sheep.\r\n\r\nThe sheep had made it’s home in the bottom of our stairwell. With pleading brown eyes and a plaintive “BAA” it made its way into the hearts of our kids, an instant love affair. With the absence of a pet of their own, they were vulnerable to this beast, seemingly brought by God to their stairwell.\r\n\r\nThe trouble is, the sheep had an ordained purpose. It would serve as the sacrificial sheep for Eid Al Adha, Feast of Sacrifice, and the most important religious feast of the year for Muslims. Eid Al Adha is a big deal. The Eid celebration concludes the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca and one of the five pillars of Islam. New clothes, days off from work and school, visiting, and a feast were all part of the celebration.\r\n\r\nWe were living in Cairo, Egypt and our small walk-up apartment was in the middle of a regular neighborhood. Our friends and neighbors were beginning the preparations for the feast which would be in a couple of weeks. The preparation included the purchase and fattening of a sheep, goat, camel or cow, depending on the availability of any or all of those animals. We were guests in the country of Egypt, brought there for a job at the American University in Cairo. We had fallen in love with the people and city of Cairo. It was big, it was crazy, it was loud, it was dirty, it was chaotic and in a few short months it had become home. We were slowly building friendships with both expatriates from all over the world as well as Egyptians. Our children were magnets for friendship and had helped us navigate our new world simply by their wide-eyed acceptance of all of life.\r\n\r\nThe sheep was posing a different sort of problem. I knew that this was not a pet. The sheep was blissfully being fattened, unaware of the imminent slaughter as our neighbors counted down the days to the celebration. Daily leftovers from the sheep’s diet could be seen in the stairwell and we had to dodge bits of vegetables every time we went up or down the stairs. And then the day came.\r\n\r\nAs we walked out of our apartment, the silence was evidence that the sheep was no more. “Where’s our sheep? What happened to the sheep? Will it come back” The questions came rapidly through the mouths of confused kindergarten and pre-schoolers. I took a deep breath. I wanted to lie. But we were living in this country for a purpose, we didn’t want to live in a bubble of western thought and belief, we wanted to build friendships and with the friendships, increase understanding.\r\n\r\nI began to explain to my children that the sheep had been killed. That it was symbolic of sacrifice for our Muslim friends and that on this, their feast day, they would eat the sheep and invite us to eat with them. As is often the case with children, when allowed to hear the truth, they accepted the reality. The neighbors were important to all of us. We were living in neighborhood and community, and that meant eating a “pet” sheep for an Eid celebration.  I needn\'t have worried. There was an acceptance, indicative of kids who already knew the world was bigger then their particular safety zone, and after a few sniffles we were ready to go out and wish people an \"<em>Eid Mubarak</em>\"\r\n\r\nI often think about those years and my children’s trusting acceptance of the fate of the sheep, understanding that our neighbors and friends were of far more value than the sheep that had made its way into our stairwell and our hearts. It seemed like a little thing at the time, but I don\'t think it was. It was part of the daily commitment to seeing people as more important than ideas, or arguments, or sheep, and in doing so slowly pulling out a nail from the coffin of misunderstanding.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Eid Al Adha: Loving Our Neighbor More than His Sheep ','','inherit','open','open','','1842-revision-3','','','2011-11-06 14:24:52','2011-11-06 22:24:52','',1842,'http://provoketive.com/2011/11/06/1842-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),