Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.

So there was a quote that was circulating on Instagram that a bunch of you messaged me

that was posted by a popular author whom a lot of Christian women I know follow and have been

reading for a long time. I personally haven't, but I know a lot of Christian women love her.

It wasn't a quote by her. It was a quote by Barbara Brown Taylor. She is an Episcopalian priest.

She is the author of lots of books, including Holy M.B., from which this quote that I'm about to read

comes. The quote is, the only clear line I draw these days is this, when my religion tries to come

between me and my neighbor, I will choose my neighbor. Jesus never commanded me to love my religion.

So you've got a lot of women sharing this saying, yes, this is so right. This is exactly how I feel.

Jesus never told me that I needed to love my religion. So I am going to live my life by this quote.

We're going to talk about why this is not only nonsensical, but also unbiblical from our Christian

perspective. Barbara Brown Taylor, like I said, she's an Episcopalian priest. She's written several

other books. She is known, if you can't tell from this quote, for kind of stretching the bounds of

theological Christianity until it almost, until it almost looks like a universalist worldview in which

everyone worships the same God, but different gods at the same time. Everyone ends up in the same

place. So it's fine. You can believe whatever you want to believe as long as how you are acting

falls under her definition or some kind of subjective and simultaneously objective definition

of loving. I don't want to do a deep dive into Barbara Brown Taylor in her book because I just don't

think it's worth it. I just want to dive into how this quote reflects something that is going on,

not just in our culture, but particularly in the church. I don't really want to decontextualize it,

but I do think that by itself it kind of symbolizes a trend that's been going on. And it represents

the essential problem with progressive Christianity, which we've talked about so many times. And I

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