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@ Friends Journal
2025-03-01 20:28:32
"Oaths are promises that fetter us to the state’s way of organizing the world through coercion and violence," Melissa Florer-Bixler writes in the Christian Century. "As theologian Marius van Hoogstraten reminds us, the church’s operation is different. We gather, we discern, we pray, we listen.... Oaths barricade against the possibility for transformation because swearing them binds us to a fixed way of interpreting reality. They assume an outcome and hold us to it."
https://www.christiancentury.org/article/ungovernable-faith