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.
Bumping into God (S11 Episode 6)
Enchanted (S11 Episode 5)
The Goat on the Cow (S11 Episode 4)
Double Rainbow (S11 Episode 3)
The Second Decade (S11 Episode 2)
Yoked (S11 Episode 1)
Conversations In A Tree (SX Episode 33)
What We Lose Without Physical Resurrection (SX Episode 32)
Easter Sunday: On Fire (SX Episode 31)
Good Friday: Where Is God At A Time Like This? (SX Episode 30)
Surprise Me Bible (SX Episode 29)
Moving Beyond (SX Episode 28)
When the Floods Come (SX Episode 27)
Fear Not? (SX Episode 26)
This Time It's Personal (SX Episode 25)
Bounded vs Centered (SX Episode 24)
Weaponized Scripture (SX Episode 23)
The Disrupter (SX Episode 22)
The Enemy Making Machine (SX Episode 21)
Beyond Enemies (SX Episode 20)
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