#ExposeChristianSchools is trending on Twitter- started by my friend Chris in response to Second Lady Karen Pence’s new job at a Christian school that prohibits gay students from attending. Basically, people are using the hashtag to share some of the ways they were subjected to whitewashed history lessons, inaccurate science classes, and blatantly false teachings about reproductive health. •
I’m saddened, though not surprised, by some of the backlash to the hashtag- that it’s nothing more than discrimination against ALL Christian education, when it’s pretty clear to me that it intended only to expose the schools that failed to prepare students for life in the real world (while emotionally traumatizing many in the process). •
I’m saddened by a pervasive lack of self-awareness — the inability to separate the actions of toxic Christians from the ones who don’t deserve criticism. I’m saddened by the lack of humility to hear any criticism at all about your faith without playing the persecution card. •
Saying #NotAllChristians in response to someone’s story about being hurt by Christians is really no different than storming into a cancer treatment ward and complaining about the lack of patients with heart disease.
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I marched mainly for the solidarity of being with other people who are just as angry, fed up, and hungry for justice. I marched to be reminded that, for all the ugliness in the news, love is still powerful and alive. I saw men holding signs that they were marching for their wives and daughters. I saw parents holding signs declaring their love for their LGBT kids, and children holding signs declaring their love for their two moms and two dads. I saw white people holding #blacklivesmatter✊🏾 signs and proclaiming their history as descendants of immigrants.
It was a fantastic weekend- despite having a bad cold and losing my voice (see stories for highlights). Flying back to Denver tomorrow, if this snowstorm doesn’t delay my flight.
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I found that when I wanted certainty about something, Christian bible studies were useful for that. But if I didn’t understand a particular passage and wanted hermeneutical insight, complete with the parsing of Hebrew words and wisdom from rabbinic scholars, I turned to my Jewish friends and their weekly Torah group. •
But won’t learning other viewpoints of Scripture only make me confused? •
Not necessarily; Judaism and Christianity share a path in history. The two religions share Scripture and God the Father. Judaism, most importantly, is the religion of Jesus and his disciples – therefore it makes sense to study it the way they, and other first-century Jews, would have understood it, with people who belong to that same faith. •
To me it seems wiser to study more than one interpretation than to settle on the one that satisfies our biases. If you never feel uncomfortable in a bible study, maybe you aren’t going deep enough.
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I use the hashtags #ChristianBlogger and #FaithBlogger rather frequently, but that’s just so my posts are more likely to reach the people who would be interested in reading them -- not because I think of myself as any kind of "Christian influencer." •
What if, in simply being honest about my doubts, struggles, and questions, I’m actually leading people away from faith? •
And yet, here I am, peddling the “brand” of being a culturally/ethnically Jewish woman who fell in love with the Episcopal church. Does that make me an official representative of what #Episcopalians should look like? •
Honestly, I hope not.
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