Comments on: Nationalism & Patriotism

By: Random Linkage at Trying to follow

Random Linkage at Trying to follow — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:46:06 +0000

[...] Josh Brown tackles our wayward patriotism. [...]

By: Touche « Thoughts and Ruminations

Touche « Thoughts and Ruminations — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:45:50 +0000

[...] Richard Hoffer made a good point, one good enough to post. It’s a call to consistency like Mr. Josh Brown’s a couple of days [...]

By: Josh Brown

Josh Brown — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:06:47 +0000

thanks eugene. i love your site as well.

jewls. i’d be lucky to be mistaken for john brown. and i agree, if god doesn’t create in us a desire for open arms, then we are severely missing the point.

andrew. well said man. well said.

and jeremy. i’m with you. it’s definitely nuanced. and not as simple or as binary as i make it out to be. i wish the answers were easy. sometimes i think they would be really easy if it wasn’t for that pesky jesus. but here’s to living in that tension and figuring it out. even when it means jesus messes things up for me.

By: jewlsntexas

jewlsntexas — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:33:30 +0000

Must *snicker* and tease previous commenter who called you “john” – a post about immigration and josh brown being changed to john brown – having lived in Harpers Ferry, WV resonating with the name of the infamous abolotionist John Brown –
interesting faux pas!

By: jewlsntexas

jewlsntexas — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:28:02 +0000

I was brought almost to the point of tears at the articulation here – it was as if my heart had words finally for what I feel.
If we are not first members of Gods kingdom and governed by His indwelling spirit, then we are nothing. On so many other levels these things can be fought out – but for those who kingdom minded – how can it be less than open arms?
Utter arrogance to claim that anything is ours to truly govern. I don’t know what the answers are – but the “protecting what is ours” when it came only by the grace of God is a foreign concept to me.