Blogaround

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1. When Worship Is Resistance: Hymn for the 81% (posted January 22) "They started putting kids in cages / Ripping mothers from their babies / And I looked to you to speak on their behalf/ But all I heard was silence / Or worse you justify it / Singing glory hallelujah raise the flag"

2. Pages from my memoirs (as written by other people) (posted December 16) "But for a child raised in the evangelical community from birth, the formative experiences of modern evangelicalism are absent. Evangelical children have no artificial tradition to reject, because they are already growing up in the unmediated, correct form of Christianity. With the important exception of sex and sexuality, they have no occasion to struggle with sin, as they have been imbued with righteousness from a young age. Yet they can’t simply go with the flow, because the core conviction of evangelicalism is that faith and salvation are things they must choose to surrender to on their own. Still, evangelical parents are confident that they know what the end result of a genuine salvation experience looks like (i.e., themselves). Every evangelical child must somehow be induced to undergo—authentically, spontaneously, individually—the exact same fundamental experience that their parents underwent."

3. Christianity Today Gets Off the Sidelines (posted December 19) "Will this have any effect on Trump’s support among white evangelicals? Goodness no."

4. How To Juggle It All and Still Make Time to Go Back for Madame Zeroni (posted December 10) "We get it, when you wake up tired, you don’t feel like going all the way to Madame Zeroni’s and then taking her all the way up the mountain, and then gently singing to her while she drinks from the stream but don’t you think you’ll regret it if you don’t? When your son is mistakenly arrested for theft and sent to dig holes in the desert we’re willing to bet you’ll be wishing you’d just got it done!"