Ellison-Jones Convocation 2024

At the faculty forum of the Ellison-Jones convocation. My talk is entitled “The Danger of a Singular Order: Joshua’s Conquest Narrative of Canaan, Jesus’s Dealing with a Canaanite Woman, and Christian Nationalists’ Reading of the Bible.”

One thing significantly lacking in libertarian hermeneutics and homiletics is self-criticism. 

Yes, we need self-knowledge that we are precious and weak (frail).

Yes, we need social change. We can be critical of others and other things.

But we need more than anything; that is self-criticism, which is not the same as criticizing the self.

Self-criticism is a recognition that we all need continual awakening. We all need deconstruction.

Toward that goal, we must study and read various things, including books, society, and the self. 

-The danger of a singular order

-Oppressors and the oppressed are everywhere: external and internal
-True liberation from everything and everywhere
-God’s effectiveness to those who change