I am often struck by the dangerous narcissism fostered by spiritual rhetoric that pays so much attention to individual self-improvement and so little to the practice of love within the context of community.
02267 – Dangerous Narcissism
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02253 – All Persons Have Worth & Dignity
In Christ’s incarnation all of humanity regains the dignity of bearing the image of God. Whoever from now on attacks the least of the people attacks Christ, who took on human form and who in himself has restored the image of God for all who bear a human countenance....
02252 – Getting Ready for Jesus
When we read about John the Baptist during Advent, we sometimes mistakenly see him as the wild one preparing the way for the mild one, when what I think he may be actually saying is "get ready for one who is even wilder than I am--wilder for love, wilder for justice,...
02208 – Community Means Connectedness
Community does not necessarily mean living face-to-face with others; rather, it means never losing the awareness that we are connected to each other.
02171 – Confession is a Difficult Discipline
Confession is a difficult discipline for us because we all too often see the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners.
02167 – Holding onto Hope Despite Disappointment
Reflecting...has led me to think that hope and disappointment are part of the same faith perspective. Without hope rooted in a vision of possibility, there would not be the experience of disappointment. As the saying goes, “Expect little, and you will be much less...
02158 – Seeking New Beginnings
Many of us today in the Western world are aware that the old order is not working—politically, socially, environmentally, religiously. Countless numbers of us from the Christian community have already lifted anchor and are sailing out of the harbor of our religious...
02084 – Love is the Only Solution
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
02058 – The Church is…
The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
01980 – Church: An Inviting Community
The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.