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Christianity isn’t the book…

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Erin Grimm

Christianity is very different from being Christian. My mom, who doesn’t go to church but who identifies as Christian said to me recently, “Christianity isn’t the book. It’s the people, it’s the friendships, it’s the relationships. It’s the air, it’s flowers, it’s animals. And if you think about in the old Bible stories the children had, which were lovey, the paintings always showed Jesus with animals.”

She told me Jesus always had a lamb in her books as a child and that that meant that you needed a lamb to be Christian!

About Christian Minus Christianity

Christian Minus Christianity is a budding community created to challenge imperialism, nationalism, and racism in many forms of US-American Christianity. It is a work of contextual theology created from the perspective of a white Christian of conscience.

Palestinian theologian Dr. Yousef Kamal AlKhouri, academic dean of Bethlehem Bible College, wrote about this project:

“I do think it’s important to dismantle imperial Christianity in a form, and for the reign of God to liberate the oppressed and God’s entire creation from systems of supremacy, exploitation, and destruction. I also believe that every theologian and Christian are doing theology from their own context, wherever they are. All theologies are contextual.”