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Word from Grace Street: Truth or Love

February 10, 2011, Love (17)

Posted by Laura Woodard

"If you had to pick, what kind of Christianity would you rather have: a Christianity with the right answers that was dead; or a Christianity, loose around the intellectual edges, that compelled people to act in love?"

Diana Butler Bass, author of the provocative book, A People's History of Christianity, posed that question originally asked by one of her professors, Dr. Lovelace.

In yesterday's Word from Grace Street, Wallace+ considers how he might respond:

Which would I pick? If I had been there, I'd like to think I would have jumped up on my desk and yelled, "The love!"

Okay, maybe I wouldn't have jumped up on my desk. That said, the choice is an easy one, if you ask me. I'll take love over truth any day of the week.

But do we have to choose? Click here to read Wallace's full message.

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The Poor as Healers

October 15, 2010, Christianity (85), Food for the Soul (55)

Posted by Wallace+

I've been reading Diana Butler Bass' A People's History of Christianity. Among the passages that resonate for me are the following words from John Chrysostom, a fourth-century bishop, as he speaks of those who are poor, and our relationship to them:

They are the healers of your wounds, their hands are medicinal to you. You receive more than you give, you are benefitted more than you benefit [them]. You lend to God, not to people.

Amen, amen.

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