“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

Musings at the intersection of spirituality, religion, science, and politics…
“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
“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.'”
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