“Who wants to devote life and loyalty to a religion that debates trifles and bullies the outsider?”
So asks Tom Ehrich in his latest article for Religion News Service (and picked up by Sojourners). He lists eight things we should say and do.
Here are two:
3) We would tell stories about God’s impact on our lives. Not grand doctrines, not airtight theories, not definitions of who’s inside the circle and who’s outside, but stories of personal encounter
8) We would talk of joy. Not giddiness, not even happiness, as the world understands happiness, but that deeper response to God that feels whole and peaceful.