I deconstructed all the way around into being a #PCUSA pastor. Yeah, that still hasn't stopped being weird. #progressiveClergy
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So I finally saw the #HeGetsUs foot washing commercial and I have some thoughts.
The He Gets Us commercial is exactly what a lot of us white American Christians want our faith to be - and not in a good way.
- It gives us a Jesus that is exactly who many of us are hoping for, who doesn't worry about structural problems, but engages in a way that is ✨nice✨, but doesn't actually result in any kind of broader social change or require anything of us.
As gross as foot-washing might seem, in this context, it feels like an almost-empty gesture, the equivalent of "be warmed and filled" (James 2:14-17) while doing nothing to change the circumstances that are harming them, except it's worse because many of those who put out the ad are on the side of making those circumstances worse.
- It makes white American Christians the main character. We and people who are us and look like us and don't look like us but are on our side get to be the heroes, acting like Jesus.
- It flips no scripts, challenges nothing many white American Christians already believe.
And of course it makes the fundamentalists angry, because they've so thoroughly lost the plot that even an almost-empty (given the context) gesture like washing the feet of your ideological enemies - right after and right before working and fighting against things that would help people who are different from them in the slightest - seems like a betrayal of the True Christian Faith™.
Responses to Young Sheldon: Religion and Science
In this first post in a maybe-series responding to theological questions and challenges Young Sheldon presents to Pastor Jeff, I respond to Pastor Jeff's claim that "there's a 50-50 chance that God exists" and Sheldon's claim that the odds of God's existence are zero.
https://davidmschell.com/responses-to-young-sheldon-religion-and-science/
I asked Bing AI to make me a picture of Psalm 149:6. I had to tweak the prompt a little bit, but it did not disappoint 😆
"Let the high praises of God be in their throats
and two-edged swords in their hands"
I think this is clearly religious nationalism, but it made me laugh so I wanted to share it.
On Deconstruction and “Reconstruction”
I've spent a long time in deconstruction circles. I was deconstructing before it was cool. I was deconstructing before deconstruction was even a thing. In some ways, I still am.
I won't belabor points I've already made elsewhere...
https://davidmschell.com/on-deconstruction-and-reconstruction/
