On Riots and Temples

Anna Elisabeth Howard
3 min readMay 30, 2020
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“I wasn’t there, but I’m guessing Jesus caused property damage when he cleared out the corruption atthe temple.” I posted this yesterday almost as soon as the thought gripped me. And as a couple people shared it, I happened to catch some negative feedback from some folks of the white, female, Christian persuasion. I was struck by two in particular. Both said things like “it was his house” and therefore my thought about his causing property destruction…

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Anna Elisabeth Howard

Anna Elisabeth Howard writes highly caffeinated takes on shalom as a lens for everything from her front porch in Hendersonville, TN.