50 Things I Have Learned About Faith and Life

My thoughts and ideas have changed a lot over the past few years. I think perhaps that is the way we should all be . . . always learning and changing.

1. People are more important than ideas
2. Ideologues make bad politicians
3. God is at least as nice as Jesus
4. Poor people  want the same things in life as all the rest of us
5. People need help escaping bad situations
6. Following Jesus is not following rules
7. Gay people are the same as me
8. Science is not the enemy of religion
9. Violence is always hurtful
10. Violence always leads to more violence
11. Certainty is not a good character trait
12. People are attracted to certainty
13. You and I are responsible for evil
14. Humility to attractive
15. God is present when people do good
16. God is present with the suffering
17. None of us understands anything completely
18. Many of us accomplish more than few of us
19. God blesses everyone
20. We all want to blame someone
21. The world is getting better
22. Actions are more important than beliefs
23. God cares about the earth
24. Cod cares about poor people
25. God cares about damaged people
26. Caring about life is far bigger than caring about abortion
27. Disasters are not God’s judgement
28. Diversity makes us better
29. Homogeneity makes us weaker
30. Change is good
31. Most people don’t like change
32. We make ourselves right by making others wrong
33. All of creation is good
34. Greed is bad
35. Fear is bad (even when initiated by religion)
36. Rest is not a waste of time
37. Too much comfort is bad
38. Consumerism is bad for society
39. The Bible is not God
40. Doubt is good
41. Questions are good
42. Societal sin is more dangerous then personal sin
43. The way we think about God should be changing
44. I should not insist that others be like me
45. We all need a little bit of relativism
46. Tension is good
47. God is revealed in all kinds of ways
48. Mistreating people is worse than breaking rules
49. Everything can’t be explained
50. God’s news really is good

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