https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:24:48 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg https://anitamathias.com 32 32 https://anitamathias.com/2012/04/25/never-believe-pronouncements-of-theologians-if-they-conflict-with-your-own-moral-sense-needed-a-healthy-dose-of-scepticism/ https://anitamathias.com/2012/04/25/never-believe-pronouncements-of-theologians-if-they-conflict-with-your-own-moral-sense-needed-a-healthy-dose-of-scepticism/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:48:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/04/25/never-believe-pronouncements-of-theologians-if-they-conflict-with-your-own-moral-sense-needed-a-healthy-dose-of-scepticism/   Never believe pronouncements of theologians if they conflict with your own moral sense.   I am re-reading John Piper’s extraordinary, honest and remarkably self-analytical account of his racist past. Jesse Jackson grew up 3 miles across the town from Piper, in Greenville, South Carolina. Piper writes: Our worlds were so close and yet so far apart. His […]

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