Thanks, as much as I enjoy a good Hobby Lobby rant, where will it get my soul? I still want more transparency from "He Gets Us." I can't even find who to write about it. But if a bunch of Evangelicals want to spend $100 million to challenge each other to not be so ideological and judgmental, I'm willing to listen. But it does feel like losing a bit of my life/ego/soul in order to save it.
It would be great if they would just go do those things…go feed the poor among us with that $100M. I mean, it’s great to encourage, after all, it’s what we writers are trying to do on Substack…but let’s be sure we walk the talk.
Ooof. The end of this piece, Todd. The part where those of us who rebuke the Hobby Lobby funding and motives have to wash their feet. It always circles back to love your neighbors, doesn’t it?
I’m reminded of a quote from the film HAROLD AND MAUDE: “Ah, my. How the world dearly loves a cage.”
If I’m understanding Matthew 22:37-40, Jesus is saying that all law depends on loving God and loving each other. The implication is that following any law in a way that doesn’t support love is either to misunderstand or misapply it, or worse.
If we are to love others as we love ourselves, then we must love ourselves.
So, harvesting grain on the Sabbath? Depends; how hungry are you?
Eating a meal with non-kosher individuals? Depends; how much do you love them?
Washing someone’s feet? Depends; are you doing that out of love, or because you’re trying to prove (unsuccessfully, even vaingloriously) how humble you are?
The questions of what a messiah is, what they do, and why they do it seems to me to stem directly from questions of how to treat ourselves, each other, and God, with love.
Thanks, as much as I enjoy a good Hobby Lobby rant, where will it get my soul? I still want more transparency from "He Gets Us." I can't even find who to write about it. But if a bunch of Evangelicals want to spend $100 million to challenge each other to not be so ideological and judgmental, I'm willing to listen. But it does feel like losing a bit of my life/ego/soul in order to save it.
It would be great if they would just go do those things…go feed the poor among us with that $100M. I mean, it’s great to encourage, after all, it’s what we writers are trying to do on Substack…but let’s be sure we walk the talk.
Ooof. The end of this piece, Todd. The part where those of us who rebuke the Hobby Lobby funding and motives have to wash their feet. It always circles back to love your neighbors, doesn’t it?
Thanks for keeping us in check. Good piece.
I’m reminded of a quote from the film HAROLD AND MAUDE: “Ah, my. How the world dearly loves a cage.”
If I’m understanding Matthew 22:37-40, Jesus is saying that all law depends on loving God and loving each other. The implication is that following any law in a way that doesn’t support love is either to misunderstand or misapply it, or worse.
If we are to love others as we love ourselves, then we must love ourselves.
So, harvesting grain on the Sabbath? Depends; how hungry are you?
Eating a meal with non-kosher individuals? Depends; how much do you love them?
Washing someone’s feet? Depends; are you doing that out of love, or because you’re trying to prove (unsuccessfully, even vaingloriously) how humble you are?
The questions of what a messiah is, what they do, and why they do it seems to me to stem directly from questions of how to treat ourselves, each other, and God, with love.
Great Harold and Maude quote! I had forgotten that part.
My favorite from that film: Aim above morality.