The American flag has been used like the image of the alabaster Jesus, a term coined by cultural critic James Baldwin. Jesus wasn’t born American, Christian or with pale pigmentation. White Jesus and the American flag started showing up in places of worship after the...
Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn instead toward a definition of faith as openness to truth, whatever truth may turn out to be.
God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love. from Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
Whoever questioned the beauty of the sunset? But who can define it? The astronomer can give us the mathematics of it. There doubtless is mathematics in the sunset; but there is no sunset glory in the mathematics. There is chemistry of colours; but there is no wistful,...
The Spirit was present at creation and abided in Jesus of Nazareth and in every other being who has ever lived and ever will. Because it is life itself, it infuses all life. It need not be asked into our lives, for it is already there. While this Spirit dwells in us,...