Get E-Mail Updates

Melody Harrison Hanson

Melody Harrison Hanson

History

Member for
26 weeks 5 days

Comments

Date Comment Source View
03/02/2012 - 7:56pm

Lisa: Thank you for your gracious spirit and forgiving heart. Your writing always stirs me toward a more hopeful future.

Do you think that white Christian should give up our affluence and power, in order to live among the poor and serve those communities. I'm attracted to that idea, but then I think of my city specifically, my family and the risks involved. My black friends who work in the black community are moving out of the poor/dangerous neighborhoods, even into mine! I'm not sure what I'm saying, just wondering if you believe this is what we should be doing into order to change the powers structures as they stand? What does black liberation theology have to say about this? And beyond a physical move like that, what can we really do to change things in our local contexts? Thanks for your thoughts and time.

I really appreciate you.

 Black Evangelicals, White Evangelicals and Franklin Graham's Repentance view
02/29/2012 - 9:16pm

Thanks for sharing a perspective from the inside. I watched and loved hearing him yesterday online. I really appreciated his perspective about Sabbath, something that is not spoken of (much) in the mega-church with mega-programs that I currently attend.

To know where he stands on women is refreshing! ""I'm not exactly objective, but I think I'm biblical,"

Quietly cheering.

 Eugene Peterson: The Pastor on Preaching, Women Clergy view
01/23/2012 - 6:12pm

My husband asked me why I care so much about what Driscoll does or says when he clearly really ticks me off, makes my stomach ache and generally bothers me.  But I've been mulling that question over.  

It's mainly his approach to biblical hermenutics.  By turning the Bible into a manual for any topic you want, you are using the tool in the wrong way.  It isn't a rule book.   I think his approach to bible study is flawed and it gives me the creeps because you can make the bible say almost anything with that approach, obviously based on what this book is saying.   

Secondly, he's got a crazy, conserative view of women and this is evidenced by just a few of the exerpts I've read from the book.   I was dismayed by how he shamed his wife.    

 

 

 He Said, She Said: Driscoll's "Real Marriage" is Really Not view
Election 2012