“While I developed many unhealthy pathologies growing up in a conservative religious community, I also had many opportunities and experiences that I am incredibly grateful for.”
Author: Benjamin Knoll
Benjamin Knoll is the John Marshall Harlan Associate Professor of Politics at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.
Daily office commentary, Acts 10:27-29: scandalous inclusion across racial categories
“My hunch is that when Peter was invited to visit Cornelius, he may have had a strong initial repulsion to the idea, his subconscious brain saying ‘Gentile out-group = bad!’ But to his credit, the account said that he responded to this by remembering ‘God has just shown me that no race is better than any other.'”
Perceptions of God through metaphors and stories, not “as an object at the mercy of scrutiny”
“A God that is revealed through metaphors, most commonly stories, tropes, narratives, etc., fits the ‘data points’ that we have from the evidence of world history.”
The beatitudes and kindness on social media
“How might our contribution to social media be used to uplift and edify instead of tear down and demonize?”
Daily office commentary, Luke 23:50-54; Joseph of Arimathea as a dissenter
“In this story Joseph of Arimathea uses his position of privilege and authority to follow his conscience and side with the marginalized, showing compassion and solidarity with those his friends considered to be a threat to their privileged place of power.” #dailyoffice
The Eucharist and panentheism: mystical connection with God’s physical outpouring into the universe
“The body of Christ: the bread of heaven“ Here’s a different way to think about the phrase “body of Christ”: Franciscan Richard Rohr recently published
Hazelnut Notes 