Treating Ethics as a Failure that Succeeds

A few days ago I wrote a post entitled “Stop Teaching the Ethics of Jesus” that received a lot of attention. Some people have asked for clarifications and, as luck would have it, Jay Bakker asked me to come to Revolution so that he could interview me about it. So here is a longer reflection on the post. While this is a prolonged interview that takes up various themes the main point that I am making is that ethical systems are necessary failures i.e. failures that we need in order to receive what they promise but can’t give us.

Stop Teaching Ethics