God is like Jesus. Even the biblical authors did not always know this but now we do.

I would submit to you that if you have never had a moment where you were tempted to throw Jesus off a cliff, you probably haven’t met the right Jesus yet.

We are to imitate Christ's enemy embracing, nonviolent love in the same way Christ was simply imitating his Father.

The way of the kingdom is to win our oppressors away from violence. Not simply to stop what they are doing at any cost, but to win them away from their oppression at any cost.

Jesus’ kingdom is, in every generation, about advocacy for the 'oppressed' within our societies.

In different areas of our lives, we are all oppressed as well as being the oppressor. There is no binary here. We all fall on a spectrum of oppression and privilege. The key is to become awake to where we are oppressing others and to have the courage to walk away from it.

The Jesus story tells us that when we are standing with the religiously marginalized, we are standing in the presence of God.

The story of temple cleansing which led to a mob-demanded "lynching" met by forgiveness and Resurrection is much less about postmortem destinies and much more about the end of fear-based religion, violence-reliant politics and greed-driven economics.

Follow a Person not a Book, be part of a Revolution not a Religion.

It's about a person, not a religion.