If the message of the Gospel is in any way clouded by a message of shame then people will avoid church at all costs If however there is a church that proclaims eternal truth and mystery in the context of utter love and acceptance that church will find the world at its door [... more]

Religious shame comes in the form of you ought to You ought to go to church more You ought to pray more You ought to read your Bible more You ought to do more for the poor You ought to have more faith You ought to you ought to you ought to it's enough to give you what my friend Dudley Hall calls the hardening of the oughteries [... more]