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Mind the Gap

Differences give a sense of belonging. Whether through birth, belief or upbringing, we need to be in communion with those who are like us. But nobody wants to live in a monochromatic society. Real learning, real growth, only happens when we are intimately connected to people that are different.

Anyone can love those who love them back. It takes no skill to embrace those who look like, think like, talk like and act like us.

To create deep, respectful relationship with “the other” will take a bit of humility. It will mean clawing our way out of the suffocating insulation that surrounds us. It might even mean overturning a few tables in the process.

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Bad Religion, Good News: An Honest Guide for the Spiritually Disappointed

We know that Christians across time have participated in or upheld grave wrongs. We also know that religious wrongdoing is more than just history. Many have suffered church-related trauma because of others who profess to follow Christ. So how do we hold the church’s historic and ongoing sins? Is the best alternative to leave the faith—and do these questions make us bad Christians?

After four decades in the same congregation as well as a career in campus ministries, Scott A. Bessenecker has faced plenty of disappointment with the church. Yet he has found a richer spirituality by honestly facing harms done by those who follow Jesus. In Bad Religion, Good News, he offers a way to hold understandable disappointment alongside the conviction that God is good. Speaking openly about the church’s sins can help us examine the ways we’ve been wounded—and perhaps wounded others. Healing begins with an honest confrontation of wrongdoing.

This invitational guide will help you move through disappointment with the church and embody the prophetic alternative to domination that the church was always meant to be.

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