Ah, communication. It is one of those things that we sometimes, erroneously, think we can opt out of. We sometimes think that what we communicate is of minimal importance . . . or of ultimate importance. We also sometimes think that the Bible has nothing to say about communication or talking or any of that…
It crossed my mind that it might not be the wisest thing to think I have anything good to say about the whole “faith vs works” thing, after all it started the Reformation and I am most certainly not a Martin Luther, not even a Martin Luther-Lite (may I be forgiven the execrable “Lite” ….
This Sunday I made a superficial attempt to rehabilitate the words “religion” and “religious” from their negative connotations. I say superficial because what I actually wanted to do is to remind all of us what “true” religion actually is. James has some very explicit instructions about how we are to behave and a counter-cultural definition…