For the duration of this week, we continue our passage with Jesus through Jerusalem to Calvary. So then, let us prayerfully insert our full selves into this journey–for much will unfold before we get to the end. Don’t hurry or shortcut the path, but look, listen, taste and smell the various blessings along the way.
Read moreSolidarity with Immigrants
Now, we don’t have time to waste. So let’s do this. Keep your eyes and ears open on behalf of the most vulnerable in our community and country – to love our neighbor as much as we love ourselves.
Read moreStrength from the beginning of the week, for the remaining week ahead.
Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice? -MLK, Jr.
Read moreEpiphany 2017
Because the wise ones came from faraway and outside places, and were daring enough to go to a remote town in Palestine millennia ago, we too come all these years later, to offer him our best.
Read moreWe are not forsaken; we are cast down, but we are not defeated.
Not only are we called to remember who we are, but we are called to be conscious of the experiences of others who have reportedly been targeted with violence, harassment; some have even been stripped of sacred wraps by so-called disciples of the elected leader, who in their actions and words have declared that there is no longer a place in our country for those of different religious and life expressions. Brothers and sisters, we must resist this evil.
Read morePrayers for Peace in Charlotte Requested - Black Lives Matter!
African Americans there who were grandparents seemed to be experiencing post-traumatic stress syndrome. They recounted horror stories from decades past, and expressed their age-long hope that because they had gone through the targeting and violence so many years ago, that their children and grandchildren would not have to experience it themselves.
Read moreRemembering 9/11 →
When any significant life event happens, the details of its unfolding seem to be captured in our memories like a photograph. The September 11, 2001, attacks, known as 9/11, became a day that jolted our lives, confronted our assumptions about our relative security, and raised the enduring question anew, “Who is my neighbor and who are our neighbors?”
Read moreSpeak truth to our neighbors. Be angry but do not sin.
Our neighbors are not always who we think they are. So let us not grow tired in well-doing, but love God, especially now, with all of who we are, and seek always to recognize and love our neighbor as our own kin. Be angry, but don’t sin is the directive for us all.
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