Where do we go from here? A response to the attack on the Capitol
We no more create truth and justice than we create ourselves. That is God’s work. We do not measure and define truth and justice. Rather, they measure and define us.
In hyper-partisan times, remembering the work, witness of Dick Thornburgh
If humility means acknowledging when we are wrong, then humility also encompasses politicians accepting the results of elections, even when they cannot believe, or would rather not concede, the choices voters have made.
The #MeToo Reckoning
Ruth Everhart courageously shares her experiences and others in “The #MeToo Reckoning: Facing the Church’s Complicity in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct.” Everhart weaves in her story, the stories of other victims, and stories from Scripture of abuse and assault. She lifts up women’s and children’s voices who have often been silenced, concluding each chapter with questions of what the text asks us, and what her own hope is for the church.
The yin and yang of social activism and spiritual centeredness
Social activism and spirituality are both well-served when what is wrought in the one is woven into the fabric of the other.
Slow cooking as a spiritual exercise
If we can find God in our shared meals, perhaps there is space to find God in the preparation of those meals if we take the time.
Shepherd your ‘little church’ as thermostat to alter society
Today, I pray for a grand emergence of a new generation of radically Christian and socially subversive parents who will shepherd their little church faithfully and unabashedly.