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