Thank you. You're doing great work. While many people around me feel so burned and betrayed by what "Christianity" became, and have walked away, I continue to witness Christian spaces and people that are wise, kind, and for social justice of all kinds. This is part of why I can't turn my back on the tradition and I keep one toenail dipped in ( via people like Fr Richard Roger, John Caputo, etc). Voices like yours will be, I hope, part of a great undoing and a great turn towards a better use of the body of texts and traditions that we've been gifted.
Some cultures (Inuit?) do not punish children when they err. Instead parents express their own remorse. I wonder how those cultures would expect Hansel and Gretel to end.
In a harsh climate a community cannot afford to throw in the oven dangerous people. They must be transformed.
That's a very interesting thought. When I first heard this I thought she was referring to Kohlberg's stages of moral development. I don't think that was a cross-cultural study. It would be interesting to know how children in other cultures react.
Thank you. You're doing great work. While many people around me feel so burned and betrayed by what "Christianity" became, and have walked away, I continue to witness Christian spaces and people that are wise, kind, and for social justice of all kinds. This is part of why I can't turn my back on the tradition and I keep one toenail dipped in ( via people like Fr Richard Roger, John Caputo, etc). Voices like yours will be, I hope, part of a great undoing and a great turn towards a better use of the body of texts and traditions that we've been gifted.
Thank you for the incredibly kind words and support. I can't tell you how much it means to me. We are all in this together.
Richard Roger lol that autotype. You guessed I meant Richard Rohr!
Yep, I totally figured it out. :-)
Some cultures (Inuit?) do not punish children when they err. Instead parents express their own remorse. I wonder how those cultures would expect Hansel and Gretel to end.
In a harsh climate a community cannot afford to throw in the oven dangerous people. They must be transformed.
That's a very interesting thought. When I first heard this I thought she was referring to Kohlberg's stages of moral development. I don't think that was a cross-cultural study. It would be interesting to know how children in other cultures react.