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How would the world be different if Christians went around saying, “God doesn’t judge you or condemn you for being transgender. God delights in you.”? What if we proclaimed that God doesn’t condemn anyone for being LGBTQ or heterosexual or poor or rich or black or brown or white or cisgender or transgender or from Guatemala, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Russia, China or the United States because God delights in the entire human race? That is the Good News.

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“I really wish that in this country, as wealthy as the United State is, that I did not have to be having this conversation about houselessness. I wish it did not exist. But it does.” And we can do something about it. Rich Swift and Vahid Brown talk with us about the misconceptions of houselessness and what we can do to help solve the problem.

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Jesus’ prayer is intentionally circular because he wants to make sure that we understand it. God is not out to get us by punishing us or condemning us. God is out to love us. All of us. The unity that Jesus prays for is a unity that’s based on sharing God’s glory with one another by sharing the eternal love of God with one another. It is in loving one another where we find the glory of God and unity with all things.

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Religions sometimes make Ultimate Truth claims. What happens when two religions make these claims? We fall into conflict and rivalry over who is right about the Truth. But what if that misses the whole point? For Jesus, the point wasn’t about being right. The point was much bigger than that. It was about love.

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Mother’s Day isn’t just about Hallmark Cards. It has a subversive political history of nonviolence and it is rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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The book of Revelation gives us two choices: Live by the Kingdom of God or the Empire of Rome. Revelation reveals that sometimes living in the Kingdom of God means you have to participate in civil disobedience.

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Are there religious teachings that we should doubt? Are there religious teachings that have very little to do with Jesus and are actually harmful to our souls? Should we doubt the existence of hell?

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The Lord is in need. He needs a donkey to carry him into Jerusalem.

And Jesus needs you to be the donkey. Jesus needs us to carry him into the world.

But we need to know this, according to the Gospels, Jesus refuses to be carried on a war horse. He will only be carried by a donkey.

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For Isaiah and the other prophets, it doesn’t matter what particular religious law says. Because any law that divides us from them, any law that tells us to detest others and treat them as abominations, should not be remembered.

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