Tag: Materialism
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The Jesus Vaccine
Vaccines have become oddly controversial. Even so, I don’t want to give them up as a metaphor that I have used to make a point about Christianity in America. When I came back from Tanzania, where we saw about 7,000 people begin following Jesus over the course of eight years, people thought that I might…
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Imagination in Transformation
Saint John Chrysostom: “Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs” (Homily on Lazarus). It seems to me that there are two distinct ways to hear these words of Chrysostom, as either a statement of…