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    The Year of Jubilee

    by Ben Hein February 20, 2023
    written by Ben Hein 10 minute read

    Several years ago, I attended a conference where I heard a message on Luke 4:14-30 which deeply unsettled me. In a conference that was intended to motivate its audience toward evangelism, this pastor used the majority of his time to tell us everything Jesus is not saying in this passage; why we shouldn’t use this passage to address social issues, how it couldn’t have any literal (physical) meaning, and why the emphasis of the passage is on gospel preaching – and preaching alone.

    While I’m sure this wasn’t the pastor’s intention, I’ve never been so unmotivated to tell someone about Jesus as I was in that moment!

    But more than that, I was really troubled. In a room filled with predominantly middle- and upper-class White Americans, the group which statistically already gives the least percentage of their income away, we did not need a (bad) theological excuse to be even less generous. Furthermore, if Jesus is not at all concerned with physical realities in this text, what do we do with passages like Luke 7:20-23 where Jesus confirms that he at least had physical realities in mind? What is it about the evangelical consciousness that is so afraid of “saving” the gospel that we actually “lose” it by twisting Scripture to meet our own ends?

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    A Deconstruction Parallel

    by Ben Hein January 30, 2023
    by Ben Hein January 30, 2023 6 minute read

    In his influential book A Theology of Liberation, theologian and Dominican Priest Gustavo Gutiérrez described a kind of deconstruction happening among the mid-twentieth century youth in Latin America. Much of what he…

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    God Has Not Othered Us

    by Ben Hein December 7, 2022
    by Ben Hein December 7, 2022 5 minute read

    A few years ago I was an active member of an atheistic, freethinking group in my area. Their honest friendship humbled and challenged me in ways that were deeply formative. In fact,…

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    A Bad Recipe for Evangelism

    by Ben Hein June 14, 2022
    by Ben Hein June 14, 2022 7 minute read

    I have reached the point in my journey of understanding the life and work of Dr. King where I’m now trying to get a better grasp on those who directly influenced him.…

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