1. Robin Rex Meyers is an American Christian minister, peace activist, philosopher and author of seven books on Liberal and Progressive Christian theology in Western society and the Christian left.
21 Facts About Robin Meyers
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Robin Meyers has been a syndicated columnist and a commentator for National Public Radio and was the Senior Minister of the Mayflower Congregational United Church of Christ in Oklahoma City from 1985 to 2020.
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Robin Meyers is a Distinguished Professor of Social Justice in the Philosophy Department at Oklahoma City University, where he has taught since 1991.
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Robin Meyers was born in Oklahoma City, and was raised in Wichita, Kansas.
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In early 2012, a week after his father died aged 88, Robin Meyers dedicated a sermon to him.
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Robin Meyers is a fellow of the Westar Institute, and a frequent preacher and speaker at church conferences and communication workshops across the United States.
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Robin Meyers has been a finalist for the pulpit of The Riverside Church on two occasions, the Earl Preacher at the Earl Lectures in Berkeley in 2000, and winner of the Angie Debo Civil Libertarian of the Year Award from the ACLU.
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Robin Meyers has appeared on Dateline NBC, the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and ABC World News.
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Robin Meyers has written for the journal The Christian Century.
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Robin Meyers delivered the Lyman Beecher Lectures at the Yale Divinity School in 2013 with addresses on "Faith as Resistance" to ego, orthodoxy and empire.
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Robin Meyers is married to Shawn Meyers, an Oklahoma City artist; they are parents to three adult children and have two grandchildren.
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Robin Meyers contends that Christianity "was once, and must be again, about following Jesus, not about worshiping Christ".
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Robin Meyers calls on modern Christianity to return to the core beliefs and practices of the early Church before the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great converted to Christianity; by focusing on orthopraxy rather than orthodoxy.
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Robin Meyers describes his approach to Christianity as "non-literal, non-dogmatic, and profoundly subversive".
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Robin Meyers spoke on Allen's behalf at an Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board clemency hearing and was one of her nominated witnesses at the execution.
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Robin Meyers appeared in the HBO documentary, The Execution of Wanda Jean, which was screened at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.
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Robin Meyers told the congregation that "love is a gender-less thing".
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Robin Meyers is involved in interfaith dialogue and spoke publicly against a Florida church's plans to burn copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of the Sept 11,2001, terrorist attacks.
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Robin Meyers eschews evangelical Christianity's emphasis on salvation and does not think that Christians need to believe in conventional marks of the Church, including Jesus' physical resurrection, ascension into heaven, virgin birth or position as the son of God.
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Robin Meyers lamented Meyers work, speculating that it might be driven subconsciously by reaction against a fundamentalist upbringing, which led him out of theological agreement with Jones' lectures and systematic theology and contrasted their supposed preferred theological sources by name, albeit without noting those referenced in the book's citations.
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Robin Meyers has spoken truth to power, and the church he loves will never be the same.