A Call for Clarity

Cruelty and meanness have no place in the good news of the Gospel. Manipulation and deceit can never be the tools of truth.

Humiliation and shame are not measures of faith or the marks of love. Stirring conflict and division to prove one’s purity—this is not the work of the Gospel.

The Gospel is not the echo of old religion, nor the relics of power and submission from ancient days.

Rather—

The Gospel is the good news that God has made empathy a divine attribute, taking on flesh and feeling through the life of Jesus.

The Gospel lifts the disinherited, the forgotten, and the cast aside—calling them honored, necessary, and worthy to build a new world, even with those who once called them enemy or unclean.

The Gospel cuts the cords of tribe and prejudice to form a beloved community—

where justice and mercy hold hands, and kindness dares to go beyond what is deserved.

The Gospel is the good news that God cares far more deeply than we were ever told— that every human being carries the power to heal, create, and transform,

no matter the trauma or tragedy that has touched our lives.

The Gospel is the invitation to live with purpose: to love one another, to shape new ways of being together,

to care for the earth and for each other as one sacred family.

This is the Good News—

we are not doomed to a life of futility or failure.

We are here, alive, in the presence and partnership of God.