Tag Archives: Rebel Jesus

On One’s Image of Jesus

Posted on September 21, 2015 by richp45198

When I was growing up, I thought that Jesus looked like Jeffrey Hunter, who portrayed him in The King of Kings. I thought Jesus was kind and patient and never ill-tempered. Then I actually read the Gospels. The picture I got … Continue reading →

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On the Rebel Jesus

Posted on January 29, 2013 by richp45198

Ecologist and theologian Wendell Berry has written that Christianity as it is practiced in the United States “has little to do with what Jesus actually thought.” (Blessed Are the Peacemakers, p. 3).  I have heard a variation on Berry’s thought … Continue reading →

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