Some of my Monday morning reading.
What one quote most often give me the perspective I am seeking?
Questions for the Day, Feb 11, 2017 | Gratefulness.org
Quote Investigator – an website used to search out the authors of often used quotes.
Grammys 2017: The 7 performances worth watching
Bridgett Henwood | Vox.com
Fed up with forgetting your passwords? The tricks to create and remember codes that fraudsters can’t crack
Toby Walne | DailyMail.com
The other side of privilege
Michael Smerconish | Philly.com
For Religious Conservatives, Success and Access at the Trump White House
Jeremy W Peters | nytimes.com
Pennsylvania Legislature Plans To Take Away Teachers’ Sick Days
Steven Singer | Huffington Post
Share This: How Jesus Saves from the Facebook Wars
Britney Lee | Red Letter Christians
The husband and wife team driving Trump’s national security policy
Eli Stokols, Bryan Bender, and Michael Crowley | Politico.com
What does it mean to be ‘Christian’ or ‘christian’? In the same way that Islam is fractured and battling about what it means to be ‘Muslim’ or ‘muslim,’ the election of Donald Trump as the President of these United States has brought into the spotlight the fractured state of Christianity that Protestants and Catholics are experiencing. The same could be argued for those who are Jewish, whether practicing the faith or not. Reporting on a Pew Research document, the Washington Post, note that about a third of our citizens think to be a real American one must be Christian.
It was good to bump into a blog post by a colleague, Rev. Jan Linn. He blogs at Thinking Against the Grain at linnposts.com
Why I Believe Ministers Like Adam Hamilton Are Wrong
Rev. Jan Linn, Feb 8, 2017
That desire to be a pastor to everyone is rooted in his belief that “the defining mark of the Christian life is not being right politically. It is expressing love.”
That is a point of view few Christians would disagree with, but its application to the political divide in our country and in Hamilton’s congregation is far from simple.
More than that, expressing love can lead ministers like Hamilton to believe, as he says he tells other ministers, that influencing people takes priority over irritating them. As I will show, I think that is a false dichotomy.