Kinship
For Jesus, the self that needs to die is the one that wants to be separate. This is the self that recoils from kinship with others and balks at union…
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Astonish the World
Now, we can be astonished at the authority of Jesus, who calls us to love our enemies. Or we can just love our enemies and so astonish the world as…
Wage Peace by Listening.
Fortunately for everyone, the solution has nothing to do with talking. Often enough we ask ourselves: How do we bridge the distance between “direct service” and “structural change”? I have…
Savoring, Not Saving
We always seem to be faced with this choice: to save the world or savor it. I want to propose that savoring is better, and that when we seek to…
Standing With
So we are encouraged to stand with the tax collector and the prostitute, the widow, orphan, and stranger, precisely because they are the judged, the scapegoated, the less-than, whose chances…
Kinship
In the end, though, the measure of our compassion with what Martin Luther King calls “the last, the least, and the lost” lies less in our service of those on…
Erasing Lines
There are two hundred references in Scripture that ask us to take special care of the poor. I’m guessing, then, it’s important. It is this preferential care and love for…
Not Orphans
Like most utterances of Jesus in the Gospel, “I will not leave you as orphans” is not just supposed to fill us with consolation but to be received as an…
Find Our Joy
As a church, as the Choir, we must stop at nothing to find our joy. Not in a ruthless, cutthroat way but in a way that is genuine and determined.…
Returning to the Center
The more you take things personally, the more you suffer. You observe it, hold it up to the light, release it, and move on. One can choose to let suffering…