John 3.16--as told by Nadia Bolz-Weber

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John 3.16--as told by Nadia Bolz-Weber

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http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzw ... -john-316/

I read this last night. Lo and behold, it was posted by an old CoC friend who's turning out to be a bit more liberal these days. Or maybe was always liberalish and I didn't know or pay attention, I'm not sure.

Anyway, for those of you who don't know, NDW is a Lutheran pastor in Colorado. She has a book called Pastrix, which is a very fascinating read, and she was raised, at least the first few years of her life, in the CoC.

That's just background. Here, she starts with the familiar, guilt-ridden "snarky synopsis" of John 3.16 that we all grew up with, and then puts her own spin on it using music as an allegory.

And it was beautiful, and I had to share it, and this seemed like more or less the appropriate place.
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Like :) Thank you for sharing.
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I have met her, tattoo's and all.
A life lived in fear,
is a life half lived.

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GMan wrote:I have met her, tattoo's and all.

I'd like to meet her one day. She seems like someone you would want to know.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.----Karl Marx
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