Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.
02536 – It Happens to All of Us
It happens to all of us, I concluded that Easter Sunday morning. God simply keeps reaching down into the dirt of humanity and resurrecting us from the graves we dig for ourselves through our violence, our lies, our selfishness, our arrogance, and our addictions. And...
01958 – Spectators, Not Victims?
It is hard not to conclude that the main reason [Western] theologians have said little that can be used in the struggle of the oppressed is due to the fact that they have been only spectators and not victims of suffering.
01799 – What God Might Do
A man was shipwrecked on an island where no one else lived. He laboriously gathered some material from the island and built himself a crude house. One day he was away from the house when he saw smoke rising from that direction. He rounded a bend and, to his horror,...