Robin Meyers

This called out to me from the feature rack at the library, and I refused to listen because I don't do Christianity. But it was still there the next week and I just had to read it. And I'm very glad I did. It's given me a definition of faith, “embodied trust”, that I might be able to accept. A definition of Christianity I could accept.

I have a friend who's 84 years old, legally blind, lives in a retirement home. She sometimes gives voice to the idea that she's not contributing anything show more anymore, just taking up space, why should anyone bother. She doesn't seem to be depressed, just realistically assessing the situation. And I really don't like the framework that Western Civilization has given her to do that assessment. There is something fundamentally wrong about the idea that a person is only worthwhile as long as they are working. That we have to earn our keep, our bread, our oxygen. Who cares if a person outlives their use?! We're not just here to be used!!!

But I wasn't sure what to say the last time it came up in conversation, couldn't find the words. I found them here (and then lost the page reference for an exact quote): none of us is worth anything unless all of us are worth something. Among many other big ideas that cry out to be lived out. show less

The marriage of bad theology and hypocritical behavior by the church has eroded our spiritual lives. Taking the best of biblical scholarship, the author recasts core Christian concepts in an effort to save Christianity from its obsession with personal salvation. Not a plea to do something brand new, but rather the recovery of something very old, this book shows us what it means to follow Jesus's teachings today.

Scholarly, pastoral, prophetic, and eloquent...all in equal measure. Meyers has spoken truth to power and the church he loves will never be the same.

Interesting, and often eloquent, but a little abstract and somewhat repetitive.