Longtime followers of the blog here are plenty aware that I’ve been distressed out of my bucket at times by the low moral standards so many Americans, especially Christians, have come to accept from the leader of the free world.
I’m especially distressed when it comes to lying and deception being perfectly acceptable because that wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing Donald J. Trump is so awesome that candidate Trump promised to “protect God for you.”
As if God needs protection from anybody, much less a man with the morals of a rabid wolf.
The retired United Methodist Bishop Will Willimon and his spiritual soul mate, the moral theologian Stanley Hauerwas, have been universally respected forever because of their uncompromising commitment to speaking the truth till the truth hurts.
Like Jesus, their commitment speaking the truth at all costs has won them enemies and fierce pushback from critics. They’ve always been up to the challenge of answering their critics with bluntness that the famously blunt Martin Luther would envy.
These two old-timers will carry the torch for the truth, and for The Truth, until their dying days.
So I’m reblogging Brother Will’s latest blog post about Hauerwas’s speech if only to remind myself that as an ordained minister called by God to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted, I have to call out the lies and deceptions of the big man who was supposed to be so much better and more honest that woman “Lyin’ Hillary.”
So with no further ado, this is from Brother Willimon…
When he received an honorary degree at the University of Aberdeen this past summer, my friend Stanley Hauerwas gave what may be the shortest commencement address on record. He said, in about five minutes, “Do not lie.”
Jesus said that he was not only the way and the life but also the truth. Christians don’t lie. We don’t lie because lying is the death of human community, or it’s impossible to be with one another in relationship when there is a pattern of lying. We don’t lie because it’s our job to show that Jesus Christ makes possible lives of truth in a world of lies.
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