A final thought from Clarence Johnson’s Inconvenient Gospel. This one is about the resurrection as God’s emphatic insistence on dwelling among us and not allowing humanity’s rejection to be the final word. < blockquote>So on the morning of the resurrection, God put life in the present tense, not in the future. He gave us not …
A nice observation by Clarence Jordan about the way in which Jesus’ choice of the twelve actually demonstrated the working of the kingdom at the same time as he was preparing the twelve to proclaim the kingdom. Jordan points out that if you put a tax-collector (publican) and a zealot at close quarters you need …
A selection of writings by Clarence Jordan titled The Inconvenient Gospel is not a long read, but I don’t want to read it too quickly. Everything seems quotable. You can’t put Christianity into practice. You can’t make it work.As desperately as it is needed in this poor, broken world it is not a philosophy of …
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