Anything that annoys you is teaching you patience.Anyone who abandons you is teaching you how to stand up on your own two feet.Anything that angers you is teaching you forgiveness and compassion.Anything that has power over you is teaching you how to take your power...
God's love calls us to move beyond fear. We ask God for courage to abandon ourselves unreservedly, so that we might be molded by God's grace, even as we cannot see where that path may lead us.
If we abandon the law of love, the law of the strongest over the weakest will be asserted.
We, this people, on this small and drifting planet Whose hands can strike with such abandon That in a twinkling, life is sapped from the living Yet those same hands can touch with such healing, irresistible tenderness That the haughty neck is happy to bow And the...
I reject the version of Jesus who would have told the rich young ruler, “you are blessed” instead of, “give everything to the poor and follow me.” Who would have pushed women to the fringes of the narrative, instead of empowering Mary to be the first preacher of...
A church must not overlook the fact that it exists for unselfish, active service to society, to individuals and groups and even to its opponents. If it does so, it loses its dignity, its claim and the reason for its existence, since it abandons discipleship. But if a...
The context for much of what Jesus said about the family was his vision of the coming crisis of God’s reign which would turn ordinary life on its head. He perceived the coming of the kingdom to be a revolutionary event; the family could no longer provide true security...