My generation is a practical generation, and I am challenged by my faith to be a practical person. Don't get me wrong: I love all verbal and theological things: story, theology, politics and history, perhaps even inordinately.
But I believe in places. I believe that relationships, rooted in love, transform...
(0) Comments | Posted March 27, 2012 | 10:48 AM
When I am faced with dishonesty and fraud on a systemic scale, I ask my questions to God. But I am continually directed back to humanity itself to find the origins of injustice. So what can we do to end injustice?
The Washington Post reported on the massive falsification...
(8) Comments | Posted February 28, 2012 | 10:19 AM
--Psalm 86
A prayer lifts up from the city, like the smoke of incense. A single prayer, in the myriad of others, a strand of smoke amidst a great burning.
(2) Comments | Posted February 8, 2012 | 10:53 AM
Isaiah 58:3-24
"Is not this the fast that I choose:
to loose the bonds of injustice,
to undo the thongs of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to break every yoke?
Is it not to share your bread with...
(7) Comments | Posted January 31, 2012 | 12:10 PM
How does a Christian live in a power-mad world? A world that, from the perspective of the Beatitudes, is upside down. A world where the poor are getting poorer, and the rich are getting richer? Where nature herself strains at her bonds: straining for release from the carbon blanket that...
(15) Comments | Posted November 30, 2011 | 3:03 PM
The occupation is like Jesus' parable, where a king invites all of his privileged, first-tier guests to the wedding. But nobody came. So the king takes the invitation out to the streets, inviting all who would come, the good, the bad, the homeless, and those with homes. And they came.
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(13) Comments | Posted May 21, 2012 | 2:20 PM