As our world seems to get more and more fractured and split, folks seem to have a harder time knowing who or what to trust. It is crucial that we figure out our benchmarks, or guide posts, for how to engage with what is right before us.

I’ve been heavily inspired by the writings of James Luther Adams. He’s a mid-20th century theologian, minister and academic from the United States who lived in Germany in the 1930s and was active in the clandestine resistance to the rise of Nazism. We often take our theologians out of context. As I write about his thoughts, keep his experience in Germany in mind.

After the breadth of Adams’ 40+ years of writing were complete, folks started pulling together bits and pieces of his thinking and came up with some pretty helpful combinations. One such is an es

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