We are deeply saddened by the brutal slaying and injuries to members of your community and the law enforcement officers who intervened in the attack on your congregation on Saturday.
That this violation occurred during your worship together is especially distressing to us. We stand united with all people of faith in praying for everyone affected.

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Friends Committee on National Legislation is also sharing their Principles for Gun Violence Prevention backgrounder, a document that I wish wasn’t newly relevant every other week.

The Wilmington Yearly Meeting that emerges will be smaller.  It will still be diverse, including a range of views on same gender marriage and Biblical authority.  It will consist of meetings that have chosen Christian fellowship over dogma, the Gospel of Love over the letter of the law.

Wilmington Yearly Meeting 2018: The Schism Begins Anew

I’m in Exodus 30 now and the Lord is giving Moses a list
of very specific laws. In 30:17, he specifies how Aaron and the
priestly caste must wash their feet everytime they come into the
Tabernacle and gives the what else: “or they will die!” Then God makes
the law firm: “This is a permanent law for Aaron and his descendants,
to be observed from generation to generation.”

I’m reading a special One Year Bible,
where all of the daily readings are grouped together. There’s not too
much commentary and I tend to skip it but the editors did feel the need
to address the laws of the Old Testament head on and asked in one
sidebar “Do we need to follow these laws today?” The answer was yes and
no: “The moral law is still to be followed… The ceremonial laws no
longer need to be followed because of the final sacrifice for since has
been made by Jesus.”

God very clearly says in Exodus that the
laws he’s giving are permanent. I don’t really read much wiggle room in
there. Priests need to wash their feet… and kill a certain number of
lamb every year… and splatter the sacrificial blood around the alter a certain
way and… I know Jesus is the new law, etc., but still it’s kind of
funny how literal-interpretation Christians will shrug off a direct and
permanent order from God. It seems obvious that the religious
traditions in the Bible differ greatly, as do the modern lens we bring
to them and the two centuries of shifting Christian practices we’ve
brought to them.

Does anyone happen to know if there’s any religious group still trying to follow the details of the Mosaic Law? I wonder close do certain Orthodox Jewish groups get?

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