Robin Meyers believes that the church should be a Beloved Community that practices radical hospitality and unconditional love—not institutional self-preservation. As for faith, it must be biblically responsible, intellectually honest, emotionally satisfying, and socially significant.
We should be fearlessly asking the big questions now, because the church as we have known it is dying, and something new is waiting to be born.
Scholarship is crucial, but authentic humans know that you can be as mean as you are smart, and that head and heart should be equal partners in faith.
In a country torn in half by toxic politics and the lengthening shadow of fear-mongering authoritarianism, we need to relearn grace, humility, and empathy, lest we lose the only thing that can save us—a moral imagination for the common good.
We need to talk to each other now, and more importantly, listen to each other—no matter how difficult—because either all of us matter or none of us do. Let the conversation begin.
Would you like to have an “Honest to God” conversation about God? Have you ever wondered why our images of God, our language about God, and our beliefs about the behavior of God haven’t changed—even though our understanding of almost everything else has? Can a renewal of organized religion even happen without a serious reconsideration of our God concept? Robin Meyers wants to expand our understanding of transcendence beyond the Old Man in the Sky, embracing science as a sibling, not an adversary. This conversation is long overdue.