Tag: The Rich
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Riches and “the Gospel”
I think about what’s currently happening in my country … here’s my ‘starter for ten’ … I reflect on the fact that mine is still, by some, said to be a “Christian” country. If, so, it seems that something’s gone badly wrong. Perhaps for too long, we’ve had a wrong idea of what “the gospel”…
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Rethinking Jesus (14) Radical Teaching
The teachings of Jesus are those of a first century, Palestinian Jew, who subscribed to the current apocalyptic view, that a great ‘reversal’ in world history was imminent. God was about to intervene dramatically to finally deal with the powers of evil, and all people who hadn’t been loyal to himself. The dead would be…