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 Why Sex Belongs On A Ladder
Roundtable Discussion - Jian Ghomeshi Scandal
The One With Ethiopian Food, Wine, Bread and Feet Washing
Oct 19 - The One With Hitchhikers and Strangers (Katie McDougall)
October 5 - The One With 'Memento Mori'
The One With World's Colliding
September 21 - The One with the Soiled Sheets
September 14 - The One with the Water and Wine and Urine
September 7 - The One With the Spit
May 25 - Falling Man
May 4 - Julie Cairn's 'Motherhood Ate Chunks of My Soul'
May 4 - Teresa's "Dear Body' Read by Sarah
May 4 - Glenn Pascoe's 'A Conversation With My Mood'
Easter 2014 (Sermon) This Is Not The End
Easter 2014 This Is Not The End
Easter 2014 Sun Arise
Easter 2014 Say Something
April 13 - Spiritual Currency & Why Nexus Exists
April 6 - Sweating Blood Part 2
March 30 - Sweating Blood Part 1
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