#brian zahnd

[nerdygaymormon]

#brian zahnd

[consciouslysam]

In times of great pain, don’t be too quick to assume that your story has been fully told.

Brian Zahnd

#pain #suffering #story #life #Brian zahnd

[quotebank]

#satan #the satan #brian zahnd

[azspot]

What we see on Palm Sunday are two parades. One from the west and one from the east. One where Caesar’s Prefect of Judea rides a warhorse and one where God’s anointed Messiah rides a donkey. One is a military parade projecting the power of empire — the Roman Empire. The other is a prophetic parade announcing the arrival of an alternative empire — the kingdom of God. One parade derives its power from a willingness to crucify its enemies. The other derives its power by embracing the cross and forgiving its enemies. One is a perpetuation of the domination systems of empire. The other is the only hope the world has for true liberation.

Brian Zahnd

#palmsunday

[qui-qui-quee]

[img desp: Image of a quote by Brian Zahnd on the Holy Post saying “The cross is not what God inflicts upon Jesus in order to forgive. The cross is what God in Christ endures as he forgives.” Holy Post Ep. 603]

#christianity #gospel #realizing PSA is a recent view of the Cross #and also realizing the early church fathers did not believe PSA #amazing #christian hot takes #i guess

[fruitbatvampiresociety]

gonna start doing a weekly "what books have i been reading" diary split into "finished, did not finish, part way through, did not read"

reasoning: i have over 40 books that i have to figure out what to do with by October, not to mention the books i Actually like and want to read and this kinda incentivizes me

Partway through:

Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God, Brian Zahnd

Conspiracy of Kings, Megan Whalen Turner

Gaia, James Lovelock

Did Not Read:

Persephone's Quest, R Gordon Wasson, et al. (just not really interested in reading about the use of shrooms in religious practice)

From Ahkenaten to Moses, Jan Assman. (I feel weird about reading anything about Judiasm with no Jews involved in either the writing or the scholarship.)

#bat chatter #batty's book pile

[arrowpunk]

Tagged by @mariposasmonarch thanks bestie

Last song: Quarter Past Midnight by Bastille

Last show: Extraordinary Attorney Woo! I just finished it a few days ago

Currently watching: Uhhhh nothing yet b/c I just finished a series and I'm so busy I haven't picked anything new up yet.... but planning to watch both the Sandman and Bee and Puppycat

Currently reading: Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God by Brian Zahnd, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez, and The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth by Beth Allison Barr (Can you tell I've got a Theme going? Whoops) and then as far as fiction goes I have Equal Rites and Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett sitting on my bedside table waiting to be started

#tag games #not tagging anyone but like hey feel free to say I did if u wanna do it

[karryalane]

#God #Christ #Jesus #Bible #religion #Christianity #forgiveness #salvation #repentance #redemption #Son of God #Word of God

[yourdproffitt]

Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024

Good morning! Happy Easter. Today is the easiest day during the entire year to preach. There is a lot going on here but it can be distilled down to a few basics: a cross, a crucifixion, a death, all of creation holding its breath and finally, this morning, an empty tomb. But as Brian Zahnd has written: “it would be a mistake to think we could sum up the significance of the crucifixion in a tidy…

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[xgenesisrei]

A Second Look at Forgiveness

Those who attended the traditional 'Seven Last Words' sermon marathon this Holy Week, not a few would surely have heard the depiction of an angry God whose hatred of sin can only be appeased by the bloody murder of His very own and only son.

A popular retelling has it that God could not stomach the sight of Jesus on the cross, at the moment covered with, and carrying upon him, all the sins of the whole wide world in past history and the future to come (in Tagalog, "..ni hindi magawang tingnan..."). If I am not mistaken, not a few pastors got this idea from Warren Wiersbe's red book on the Seven Last Words. The idea includes the turning away of the Father being so severe that Jesus released a grim cry of absolute abandonment, "My God, why have you forsaken me?" Sometimes this will come with an illustration of a father who lets his son get crushed under a bridge so that a boatful of people won't. A sacrifice that can leave people in tears, sometimes of gratitude, other times of shock and bewilderment. Stories can be so double-eged, way more than people who rely on it for communication would realize.

But what if there are other ways to think of what exactly was happening at the cross on the afternoon that we now call as Good Friday?

[At this point, it is good to distinguish the Gospel from theology. Accepting God's forgiveness is experiencing the Gospel. Making sense of how God forgives, the explanatory logic of it, is theology. The latter, and all its complex explanations, need not get in the way of the former, the reality of experience. However, there are times that people settle for the experience despite of, even against, the 'explanation' they were given. Blessed are those who have taken a bet on the mystery of grace instead of simply taking the offered clarity of doctrine.]

And so what if...

What if the meaning of the cross need not be necessarily limited to the logic of substitution (Jesus' life for our own, essentially, Lex Talionis) but one of comparison? That is, the cross tells the story of how the ultimate 'crime against divinity' (the grim murder of God's begotten Son) can actually be subjected to forgiveness? In the words of Jesus himself, "Father, why don't you forgive them? It is obvious, they have no idea what they were doing..."

What if the message has more to with the realization that the worst thing people can ever inflict upon God Himself is in itself unable to quench the depth of divine grace and mercy?

And if this blasphemy is forgiveable, anything else, lesser in magnitude by way of comparison, shall also be as well. In other words, if this 'sin' can be forgiven, all sin can surely be forgiven. Though not by subjecting God to a schema of how he can be loving but by embracing the very identity of a loving God.

Brian Zahnd said something like: The cross is not where Jesus 'changes' how God feels about us but where Jesus 'reveals' how God's love for us has remained unchanged.

If, just if, there can be a way to reimagine the cross as a symbol of 'affirmation,' rather than a 'condition,' of God's love, then, who knows, there might be people out there who might start to reconsider again the goodness that is at the heart of Good Friday...

-Rei Lemuel Crizaldo (March 29, 2024)

#good friday #holy week #atonement #forgiveness

[kgdrendel]

Untangling American Christianity from Americanism

In a recent podcast conversation I listened to Skye Jethani speaking with Brian Zahnd who mentioned his disillusionment with American Christianity at one point in his pastoral career. (Beginning at about 54 minutes into the podcast) Zahnd shared that he came to a place where he thought, “Jesus deserves a better Christianity than what I have experienced.” What Zahnd may have been talking about is…

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#Americanism #Chrsitianity #empire #kingdom of God #nationalism #temptation

[mikehelbert]

[angelanatel]

Postcards from Babylon, de Brian Zahnd

[jonathanmills]

Here's a thought:

“In times of great pain, don’t be too quick to assume your story has been fully told.” - Brian Zahnd

[azspot]

Everyone knows Jesus taught nonviolence except Christians.

Brian Zahnd

#jesus

[darylmerrill]

“To be a religious person in an irreligious world may be the last act of rebellion. I advocate such rebellion.” Brian Zahnd https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl-BaEMNgxb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=