This week for some Revisionist History, we start with a very controversial Tweet by the notoriously adored, and reviled, atheist, Richard Dawkins. What he tweeted sounds controversial to our ears, but what Dawkins had done is merely parrot an ancient story, one that has been rehashed and retold down through the generations: from Plato and Aristotle, to Nietzsche and Himmler, to the greatest of documentary filmmakers, Werner Herzog. Dawkins was telling the story of “nature.”
In contrast to that story, something new seemed to emerge in the first century. A radically different story that highlighted an experience and emotion centered in the bowels, of all places. And this very unfamiliar emotional response in the ancient world would start a movement that, over time, would launch universal healthcare, as well as end infanticide and the gladiatorial games forever. How could such a thing happen?
Trigger warning to all, this Sunday we will be talking about some sensitive subjects like abortion and infanticide. My goal is not to explore the ethical debate around those issues, but to showcase how radically some things have changed over time. Of course, I will also need to tell you about a young boy I met this summer. A boy named Hudson, and how my response to him left me thinking God often works in our lives in the most obvious of ways...we just don’t see it.
The One About Dropping Rocks In Water
The One About Hope (Aaron Holmes)
The One About Sabbath and Delight
The One About Sabbath and Shame
Glimpses - The Cards We Are Dealt (Julie)
Glimpses - Maybe, Maybe Not (Chris)
Glimpses - I Fear The Darkness Runs Too Deep (Ruthi)
Glimpses - Words in the Air (Rob)
The One About Gravy Sales, Sabbath and Dehumanization
The One Where We All Crocheted
The One About Spiritual Currency
Easter 2015
The One That Was Good Enough
George De Long Part 4
The One About Covering the Cross
George De Long Part 3
The One About the Cover Up and Coping
George De Long Part 2
Out Of That Good Night Part 1
George de Long Story Part 1
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