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Tag: Peter

Daily office commentary, Acts 12:11-17; “believe the women”

July 17, 2019 Benjamin Knoll

“This is one of the many lessons we can take away from these stories: believe the women; they are usually among the first to receive knowledge of God’s work among us.” #dailyoffice

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Daily office commentary, Acts 10:27-29: scandalous inclusion across racial categories

July 12, 2019 Benjamin Knoll

“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.'”

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“We are all Peter”: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and an imperfect church [archive]

June 23, 2019 Benjamin Knoll

ORIGINALLY POSTED AT RATIONALFAITHS.COM ON JUNE 10, 2018. In the years before World War 2, Dietrich Bonhoeffer became increasingly distressed at the German church’s willingness

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