Random Comments on the Bible

Lately I've seen a couple of things on Facebook to which I've had a predictable reaction given my worldview. http://www.refinery29.com/2017/03/144819/sexual-assault-mugging-video-parody-viral The above parody: a man comes into the police station after being mugged at knife point. The female officers intimate that maybe he was asking for it because he was dressed so well and he didn't scream. My thoughts/reaction: funny but a profoundly true comment of gender discrimination.  And then there was this floating around a few days ago: Short version of the above : a male employee accidentally -- then intentionally -- swaps email signatures with a female employee. Both are shocked at the worse/better treatment they receive based purely on gender. My thoughts/reaction. Wow. Sexism strikes in 2017. I recall a female co-worker's story of being bullied by a male boss. I remember thinking at the time,  he did what? He said what? He never treats me like that. Respon...

For those of you interested in church growth and change theory. How does this -- Richard Rohr on systems of this world -- fit into your paradigm? https://cac.org/the-body-of-christ-2017-03-09/ Trinity: Week 2 The Body of Christ Thursday, March 9, 2017 A Trinitarian person in formation is someone being freed of narcissism’s chains. A partner in the divine dance is someone who agrees to stand in the mutual relationship that  God is —the relationship that God has already and gratuitously drawn us into. As Lay Cistercian and teacher Carl McColman puts it: God is in us, because we are in Christ. As members of the mystical body, Christians actually partake in the divine nature of the Trinity. We do not merely  watch  the dance, we  dance  the dance. We join hands with Christ and the Spirit flows through us and between us and our feet move always in the loving embrace of the Father. In that we are members of the mystical body of Christ, we see the joyful...