Really interesting, James. Thanks for writing this up.

And I’ll remind everyone that there are amazing Jews out there organizing for justice, working in coalitions with myriad non-Jewish communities on many issues that matter, etc. Not all of them are here (many more grassroots projects not even orgs) but it’s a place to start:

Often their most intimate relations are tangles of reciprocal harm, coldness, and resentment-righteous meanness.
They have become "Christian" without being
Christlike."
~ Renovation of the Heart.

…its basic goal is to get people into heaven rather than to get heaven into people. This creates groups of people who may be ready to die but clearly are not ready to live. They rarely can get along with one another, much less with those "outside."

For those who simply can't recognize Jesus in most of his American followers, here is Dallas Willard’s poignant reminder:
"Now I must say something you can be mad at me about. A fundamental mistake of the conservative side of much of the Western church is that…