It's In the Code Ep. 60: The Distance Between the Head and the Heart
Straight White American Jesus
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Missing Salvation by 18 Inches
LZ Granderson: The distance between the head and the heart is used to shape people on a fundamental visceral level. LZ: But if social control slips, then appeals to the head to normative beliefs and external structures of authority all come flowing back in. He says it's a slippery phrase because it can be used either way or abandoned or limited as needs be to control people within the church who make this profession. "Missing salvation by 18 inches" means that one also must believe particular things about the Bible or about the nature of God.
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