Consuming Jesus » Braxton Alsop http://consumingjesus.org Beyond Race and Class Issues In a Consumer Church Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:08:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 © theycallmepastorbryan@gmail.com () theycallmepastorbryan@gmail.com() 1440 Beyond Race and Class Issues In a Consumer Church theycallmepastorbryan@gmail.com No no http://consumingjesus.org/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Consuming Jesus http://consumingjesus.org 144 144 True Community: A Holistic Gospel Witness http://consumingjesus.org/2009/09/22/true-community-a-holistic-gospel-witness/ http://consumingjesus.org/2009/09/22/true-community-a-holistic-gospel-witness/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:20:37 +0000 Braxton Alsop http://consumingjesus.org/2009/09/22/true-community-a-holistic-gospel-witness/ In this essay, Kelsi Johns writes with her usual simple profundity and keen eye to the blood, sweat, and tears of true discipleship.  She reflects on her own experiences to draw out what it means to live the gospel rather than simply preach the gospel from a safe distance.  To love is to risk, and as Kelsi explains, the church is called to show the same “messy, generous, limitless love” that God has shown to us in Christ.  Community development, Kelsi asserts, must begin with developing relationships, with truly loving our neighbors and serving  with and among them, rather than just to them.

True Community

]]> http://consumingjesus.org/2009/09/22/true-community-a-holistic-gospel-witness/feed/ 0 Jacques Derrida and Structural Evil http://consumingjesus.org/2009/09/03/jacques-derrida-and-structural-evil/ http://consumingjesus.org/2009/09/03/jacques-derrida-and-structural-evil/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:17:15 +0000 Braxton Alsop http://consumingjesus.org/?p=94 Is the much maligned (and praised) philosopher Jacques Derrida, father of deconstruction, a misunderstood liberator in need of a little liberation himself?  In this essay, Braxton Alsop gives a sympathetic ear to Jacques Derrida as a liberation theologian in his own right, analyzing how well Derrida addresses human suffering caused by structural evil. Braxton then sets forth his own views on God, salvation, and the church, explaining how a Trinitarian perspective better addresses the shared concern for structural evil.

Jacques Derrida and Structural Evil

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