A newsletter roundup in which McKnight opens by noting the confusion of the times and then highlights writings by others. He commends a Sunday School lesson on Obadiah applied to U.S. policy toward the vulnerable and immigrants, a pastor's reflections on the Johannine community and deconstruction, Timothy Snyder's description of Musk's actions as a coup, Paul Kingsnorth's critique of Christian civilisationism, and Skylar Ray's call to love through attention to local history.
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Society is in confusion, and many people wonder what lies ahead and what can be done.
- Endorses a source· Beth's Sunday School lesson on Obadiah
The Bible is consistent from Old Testament to New that God expects his people to care for the vulnerable, keep the wealthy from oppressing the poor, welcome strangers, and love their neighbors, and God does not require less today.
- Endorses a source· Beth's Sunday School lesson on Obadiah
Obadiah's warning that deeds return on those who did harm applies to present policies such as mass deportation of immigrants and cruelty toward the vulnerable.
- Endorses a source· Tommy's sermon series on the Gospel of John
The Gospel of John took shape from the Johannine community's experience of being expelled from the synagogues, and its high Christology and rejection of hierarchy and law-keeping respond to that journey, a kind of deconstruction.
- Endorses a source· Tommy's sermon series on the Gospel of John
People who deconstruct their faith typically want to get back to Jesus and build everything on him, and this is centered-set thinking.
- Endorses a source· Tommy's sermon series on the Gospel of John
Bounded-set thinking, which focuses on who is in and who is out, risks losing Jesus by building walls at the borders of faith and keeping the wrong people out.
- Endorses a source· Timothy Snyder
Elon Musk and his followers' seizure of control of federal government computer systems is an illegal coup, because they have no right to the power and intend to undo democratic practice and violate human rights.
- Endorses a source· Paul Kingsnorth
Christian civilisationism hijacks the faith as a political instrument, and Christianity and modern Western civilisation are opposed, so defending the West with the faith is a lost battle.
- Endorses a source· Skylar Ray
Christians are called not only to lament but to love in word and deed, and attention to local history and place equips a Christian to steward that knowledge toward loving neighbors.
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