Lessons on the Mid-terms: Pay Attention to How You Hear!
“ So pay attention to how you hear . To those who listen to my teaching, more understanding will be given. But for those who are not listening, even what they think they understand will be taken away from them.” --Luke 8:18 (NLT) "Unchecked, privilege fosters mythology, emboldening an ahistorical theology and worldview. It allows whitewashed history to be canonized and institutionalized, immoral men to be venerated and revered, and nations to live in denial and unrepentant sin." --Dominique Dubois Gilliard in Subversive Witness "A myth is a story that, whether true or false, helps us discern the meaning and purpose of our lives and, for that reason, speaks truth to those who embrace it." --Richard T. Hughes in Myths America Lives By I have been thinking quite a bit about the results of the recent mid-term election and had some instant reactions to the outcome. I decided that before sharing those thoughts, I would purposely delay my response and spend some time in...