making sense, moving forward
We live in a world that is so different from the world of the generations that have preceded us. The pace of change is dizzying. The amount of accessible — unavoidably accessible! — information is...
View Articleliving witnesses … witnesses to life
From today’s news outlets … By Michael Rubinkam: In Amish village, forgiveness lives Just about anywhere, a deadly school shooting would have brought demands for tighter gun laws and better security,...
View Articlethe opposite of peace …
I think the opposite of hope is not despair, but resignation. no hope, just emptiness, care-lessness … I think the opposite of love is not hatred, but apathy. no love, just indifference, care-lessness...
View Articleon the subject of the war in iraq
I reprint for you here an excerpt of the remarks Jim Wallis will make at a Christian peace rally to be held this evening in Washingon, D.C. His words are powerful and passionate and perceptive and...
View Articleconsidering the cross
Either God was not in Christ and the cross is the ultimate symbol of all the meaninglessness that can destroy us, the absence of God, the triumph of the secular powers. Or God was in Christ and the...
View Articlea prayer for good friday
Lord Jesus, forgive us for all the ways we deny you … … by remaining quiet in the shadows, not daring to speak our faith in the public arena … by quietly going about our own business, while neglecting...
View Articlethirty-three prayer flags
Yesterday, as classes resumed at Virginia Tech, students gathered around a display of thirty-three white prayer flags. Thirty-three flags … one each for the thirty-three people who died the previous...
View Articlethe furious longing of god
I was recently invited to join the members of the TheOOZE Viral Blogger Network. You can learn more about the Ooze online community by following the link listed in my blog’s Links list. Each month,...
View Articleillegal to love your neighbor in arizona?
Here is an excerpt from a recent report by Jim Wallis from Phoenix, Arizona. May the followers of Jesus in our own day echo the words of Peter and John and the other apostles: “We must obey God, not...
View Articlekilling bin laden
Yes, Osama bin Laden did evil things. Yes, he despoiled the image of God that was put in him as well as in each of us. But if we allow his choices to change our choices, to make us people ready to kill...
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