He wrote: “The truth about today’s gospel is that it has ceased … to have any attraction because it has become unintelligible.”15 The old “savior model” stifles us because it fails to enkindle God’s super-abundant love within us, the same love moving the universe toward more life. The old savior model has created fearful, frightened, and guiltridden people, who are more concerned with going to heaven (and avoiding hell) than with the health of the planet, the atrocities of racism, the wounds caused by gender inequality, or just the importance of plain common courtesy without being overly
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