We need a true national and global vision and the belief that we can do great things and embrace a wider range of human experience. We need a new deal, a new frontier, and great society. Tax breaks for the wealthy, white privilege, mass deportation, gun lust, fewer...
Are SMALL things the BIG things in life? It all matters. That someone turns out the lamp, picks up the windblown wrapper, says hello to the invalid, pays at the unattended lot, listens to the repeated tale, folds the abandoned laundry, plays the game fairly, tells the...
Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven, when the whole of Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.
As the E.B. White watched his wife Katherine planning the planting of bulbs in her garden in the last autumn of her life, he wrote, “there was some thing comical yet touching in her bedraggled appearance...the small hunched-over figure, her studied absorption in the...
IF DEATH WAS TO be truly defeated, it was only by dying himself that Jesus believed he could defeat it. If he was to reach the hearts of men, it was only by suffering his own heart to be broken on their behalf that he believed he could reach them. To heal the sick and...
We are entering a period of reformation in which the old understandings and assumptions about church are dying, and new, Spirit-led visions of church are emerging. from Where There is No Road at All
"Personal growth" is misleading, because it sounds like it's going to be fun. But if we called it "deliberately making yourself so uncomfortable it'll feel like you're dying," nobody would do it and we'd be totally screwed.
We all die eventually; we have no choice in the matter. But there are degrees of death before the final physical one. If we are honest, we acknowledge that we are dying throughout our life, and this is what we learn if we are attentive: grace is found at the depths...
[on being a foster parent:] I know what some of you are saying: "I could never do that. I would get too attached." Let me remind you of something. Christianity is dying to one's self for the sake of Christ and others. Every time one of these children leaves our home,...
The human race is, was, and probably always will be deeply unwilling to accept a human messiah. We don't want to be saved in our humanity; we want to be fished out of it. We crucified Jesus, not because he was God, but because he blasphemed: He claimed to be God and...