On this Good Friday, I pray all here remember the reason for the season. This weekend isn't about peeps and eggs, it's about death - and then a glorious resurrection.

One of my favorite online Bible sites is Bible Gateway. Sharing this week's newsletter link with any who care to read it.
https://link.biblegateway.com/view/65a057bc662a7a41db041fcckqtfh.sgh1/a0db9884

The newsletter is free to read and the site is free for any to use. It has been in operation for as long as I've been using the Internet and probably way before. They have Bible translations freely available to all in almost every language in the world.

I hope no one minds that I'm posting this on the main section - It just seems given the day (Good Friday), the topic (a Bible), and the number of people following it, this is where the greatest number will see it and maybe check out the site too, if they've never seen it.

Again - it's FREE. It even has all sorts of reading plans available should anyone who has never read all the way through the Bible decide this is the year to do it!

https://www.biblegateway.com/

May God be with all here on OPP today and every day.

"When Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, communications director for the BJC Center for Faith, Justice and Reconciliation, saw Trump’s Bible endorsement, he said he saw a politician using fears rooted in racism and prejudice to promote a specific Christian ideology.

“When I hear ‘Make America Pray Again,’ I hear Christian nationalist promises that we are going to somehow ‘restore’ Christianity in this country. And if authoritarianism does come to the United States, it’s all but guaranteed it will be done in the name of Christianity, which is a very scary thought.”

Graves-Fitzsimmons holds a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York City and also works with the group Christians Against Christian Nationalism. He says things like the “God Bless America” Bible overlook the many, many Christians who do not agree with Trump’s politics or the blending of patriotism with faith."

“There is a diversity within American Christianity that gets overlooked whenever politics and religion intersect,” he told CNN. “There’s this false notion that most American Christians are pushing for anti-abortion restrictions, and are anti-LGBTQ, and the opposite is actually true. Christians, I would argue, are the ones who are most concerned about the effects of Christian nationalism in this country.”


https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/28/us/donald-trump-bible-christianity-cec/index.html