Recently I have been re reading Henri Nouwen’s book Life of the Beloved and I’ve been thinking again about “chosenness”. In my Presbyterian tradition and in the larger Reformed tradition, chosenness can be awkward and difficult topic.The idea that we are chosen gets equated with election and also with predestination. The popular usage of those terms misses […]
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Religion and Politics: Not Again!
Now why, would I want to bring that up now? Surely, we have had our fill of debate, diatribe, accusation, distortion, and any other word you can think of on the topic of faith and politics. Now, for better or for worse, the economy has shifted our political attention away from religion. Talk about faith and […]
