Returning and Reimagining
It's been over a year and a half since I've posted here. That's mostly because I've been on a spiritual journey of a different sort and could never find the right words to make a blog post worthy of a space that has billed itself in the past as being "at the intersection of religion and social change." The religious climate in my country has been dark in the last year as the evangelical right has taken the last steps toward idolatry and blasphemy in its support of the radical right wing of the political spectrum. In many ways, it has finally drawn a line in the sand that allows us to demarcate the separation between those who follow Christ and those who follow their own self-interest. We can finally point to the things like The Nashville Statement and the false prophet Franklin Graham and say, "This is not Christianity of Jesus but the work of idolators and charlatans." Yet even though this clear separation makes it easier to point out the