In this episode, I reflect on the following passage from Ephesians 4:14 in the Bible:

"Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work."

I discuss how this passage describes aptly, in its "blown here and there by every wind of teaching", the qualities of some of those who have committed recent violent atrocities in the name of some political identity they hold. I discuss how the only true solution to the problem of identity is the one Paul gives in Ephesians: giving ourselves and our ideologies up to the creator God, embodied in Jesus Christ.

I also discuss how Christians themselves must embody these qualities in their discourse. If we attach our identities to our politics, we need to either repent, or to question whether we are really Christians at all.

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