Monday July 18 - Romans 1:18 to 1:32

Can you get through and beyond today’s reading? Paul’s polemic is only exceeded by popular pietistic interpretations in toxicity.

I can hear that God revealed God-self in creation for anybody to see, and gave us freedom to work with it or against it. Choose small, worship the creature not the creator – and stuff happens!

I have trouble tuning out the salacious homophobic interpreters who obsess on verses 26 and 27. Why do we never linger as long on verses 28-31, longer lists of vices that we all share?

How does a good life in a good creation go wrong? What’s the root of how humans mess up with God and with each other? Who deserves to die – what choices have what consequences?
The rest of the article goes here.