"I define myself above all other things as a believer. I am indeed a passionate believer. God is the ultimate reality in my life... Like the psalmist of old, I have the sense of God's inescapableness. I am what I would call a God-intoxicated human being...
[I seek] to build a world in which all barriers to full humanity for every person have been removed. That is why, for me, no prejudice can ever be allowed to exist within that entity that has come to call itself "the body of Christ." For any prejudice, whether it is based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, cult, or ritual purity, is finally nothing but a dagger aimed at the very heart of this gospel that rises from the life of Jesus" (italics added).
--from Why Christianity Must Change or Die by Bishop John Shelby Spong
With that, I am...
Peter
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