“Hosanna! Save Us!”: How We Need to Think About Jesus During Easter

Tag: christianity

Note: I wrote this for Easter a couple of weeks ago. Throughout Holy Week this year, I have constantly been thinking about how we think about Jesus. I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church and whenever Palm Sunday and Easter would come around, the sermon would always focus on Jesus’ procession into Jerusalem, Judas’ betrayal, the crucifixion, and culminating with Jesus resurrection on … Read More “Hosanna! Save Us!”: How We Need to Think About Jesus During Easter

December 17, 2024 + bible, christianity, jesus christ, paul, religion

What is Our Obligation to Others?

by Matthew Teutsch

No matter what, I always encounter ideas and behaviors that I can’t, for the life of me, wrap my head around. During college, chemistry was the discipline I just couldn’t understand, and my inability to grasp it led me to change my major, moving me towards education, a path I never thought I’d take. It’s one thing to have trouble understanding something like chemistry, … Read More What is Our Obligation to Others?

May 8, 2024 + christianity, lillian e smith, persecution, religion, tim alberta

The Violence of Fear in Evangelical Christianity

by Matthew Teutsch

In “Are We Still Buying a New World with Old Confederate Bills,” Lillian Smith writes, “The Devil knows that if you want to destroy a man, all you need do is fill him with false hopes and false fears. These will blind him to his new direction and he will inevitably turn away from the future and destroy himself and those close to him.” … Read More The Violence of Fear in Evangelical Christianity

February 21, 2024 + christianity, howard thurman, jesus and the disinherited, lillian e smith, punk, religion, strange fruit

Christianity and the Manipulation of Power

by Matthew Teutsch

I don’t remember the first time I heard Regan Youth’s “Jesus Was A Communist” (also titled “Jesus Was A Pacifist”), but I remember the impact it has had on me. On the song, Dave Rubinstein sings, over and over again for four verses, “Jesus was a communist/Jesus was a pacifist/Jesus was a communist/Jesus didn’t like the rich.” Reagan Youth pointed out the intersections between … Read More Christianity and the Manipulation of Power

February 15, 2024 + american literature, georgia literature, lillian e smith, Literature, race, religion, strange fruit

Lillian Smith and the “Sex-Race-Religion-Economics” Tangle

by Matthew Teutsch

Over the past week, I’ve been reading Lillian Smith’s Killers of the Dream for my Women in the Civil Rights Memoir course and her debut novel Strange Fruit for a book club at the end of January. If memory serves, this is the third, maybe fourth, time I have read each of these books. However, I have never read them at the same time, moving back and forth between the … Read More Lillian Smith and the “Sex-Race-Religion-Economics” Tangle

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“Hosanna! Save Us!”: How We Need to Think About Jesus During Easter

Tag: christianity