Concerning That Richard Rohr Meme

Deconstructing Evangelicalism and Discovering the Christian Tradition

“If the faith is not a journey toward union with God and it’s not transformative, then it’s trash.” -Charlotte

In this episode Chad Rhodes and Charlotte Elia take a look at a popular meme featuring a quote from Richard Rohr. The quote reads as follows:

“We worshipped Jesus instead of following him on his same path. We made Jesus into a mere religion instead of a journey toward union with God and everything else. This shift made us into a religion of ‘belonging and believing’ instead of a religion of transformation.”

Listen as your hosts celebrate those deconstructing their experiences of Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism before turning their their attention to investigating the questions posed by the meme. What is the relationship between worshipping Jesus and following him? How is our religion a journey toward union with God? Is the Christian faith a religion of transformation or not?

“I’m glad that these people are coming out of this. It just makes me so sad that they were ever held by it and abused by it and that so many other people might get out of it, but they’re not going to go through this kind of work or ever discover what’s happening in the rest, or what has happened in the rest of the Christian tradition. They will just be done with it all.” -Charlotte

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