Sunday, January 05, 2025
Sunday Reflection: What of Christianity?
I know that a lot of Christians are down right now about the state of the faith. Christian Nationalism bastardizes the church, membership is down, and large swaths of the public associate Christianity with racism, anti-LGBTQ bias, MAGA worship and hostility to immigrants. Sadly, much of that is a part of some sects of Christianity today.
In the end, though, this is a faith that is about the teachings of Jesus as found in the Gospels. It's a pretty limited set of central texts, actually. Any fair reading of those words countermands all those cruelties creeping into the faith, of course, and in the end that is what will steer us back: the actual teachings of Jesus, centered on love.
I can't change the whole of Christianity, but I can say what I know to be true-- and I am going to keep doing that, knowing that my principles are rooted in what Jesus actually taught rather than what others might want to sell.
