Sunday, August 12, 2018

Fake Cross, Fake Gospel of Ron Burns (aka Thabiti Anyabwile)

Some mothers who have grieved the loss of children and become advocates: Samaria Rice (Tamir) Heather Bro (Heather Heyer) Lezley McSpadden (Mike Brown) Sybrina Fulton (Trayvon Martin) There are more who’ve turned grief and tragedy into redemptive action. Isn’t that the cross?

Um, NO. Not even close.

After getting deserved criticism (after all there is no context to Tweets, BY NATURE), he tried to cover his error:

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Sigh. Tweeted the above and went to church. Having a wonderful Lord’s Day only to return to find folks doing more with the tweet than I ever thought or imagined. My only point, poorly stated in tweet-length, is that the logic of tragedy turned triumph is the logic of the cross.

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