3 posts tagged church unity and division

Little Marios: How Having Siblings Should Impact Your Faith

When you can see other people--even those annoying people who have appointed themselves to be God's Republican or Democratic Social Media vigilantes--as brothers and sisters, as chips off the same block, as different versions of ourselves, love is the only response that makes sense.

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Love Is Patient, Love Is Kind Is Not a Wedding Sermon

Paul wasn't talking about marriage at all. He wasn't elevating the love between a bride and groom to some higher standard, where he called us to have this special kind of "patient" and "humble" love with...you know, that one special someone, who we're going to wake up next to every day. His intention was to define love as it should manifest in life and culture, to friends, family, society, humankind...and probably, he especially meant to impact how people of faith thought about and treated each other (since that is who he was talking to).

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When Christians Turn Facebook Into Hatebook

Republicans and Democrats, Liberals and Conservatives, hosting daily gang wars on Facebook. Hate. Instead of helping people see what's "right," you helped them hate truth instead.

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