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.
01/31/16 - Adrift in Fantasy (Phill Pearson)
01/24/16 - Adrift Spirituality
01/17/16 - Adrift: Finding A Home (Katie McDougall)
01/10/16 - Dangerously Adrift
01/03/16 - Adrift: More Deeply Alone
12/13/15 - Shepherds, Angles & Herding Culture
12/06/15 - Light and Darkness (Daryl Andrews)
11/29/15 - Evolve Series Finale
11/22/15 - Evolve: Marriage and a Post Purity Sexual Ethic
11/15/15 - The Evolution of Hierarchy and Humility
11/08/15 - The Evolution of Gender
11/01/15 - The Evolution of Family
10/25/15 - Evolve
10/18/15 - The Pearl and the Merchant (Phill Pearson)
10/11/15 - Spit In Your Eyes And Jesus Preferential Option for "L's" Over "P's"
10/04/15 - Stories and Kingdoms
9/20/15 - Reclining on Freud's Couch in the Desert
9/13/15 - Into the Wilderness
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The One About Killing Your Heroes
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