The Business of Forgiveness

Or: Why "Acceptance" Is A Bad Idea

There’s a lot of talk about acceptance/tolerance in the church today. We ask people to be more understanding of others, we create curricula of theological teachings that are so watered down so as to say not much of anything, and we assume that being Christians is the same thing as being nice.

But how would you like to be the one tolerated? 

Tolerance is a…