I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.
04175 – Tears of Homelessness
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03986 – The Ache for Home
The ache for home lives in all of us - the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
03427 – We Have been Called…
We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring back home those who have lost their way.
03408 – Patriarchy Protects Men, not Women
Patriarchy isn’t about protecting women; it’s about protecting men. It's about preserving male rule over the home, church, and society, often at the expense of women.
03321 – Seeking Advice?
When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from those who have never left home.
03272 – Joy!
Joy does not arrive with a fanfare, on a red carpet strewn with the flowers of a perfect life. Joy sneaks in, as you pour a cup of coffee, watching the sun hit your favourite tree, just right. And you usher joy away, because you are not ready for it. Your house is not...
03203 – Love Like No Other
From his hospital bed this morning (one-day stay for a minor procedure), Dad asked me to please help him with flowers and a cake for Mom’s birthday. She is turning 75 this weekend. Once at the store, I had to send multiple pictures of options to him before he was...
03173 – Grace Has to be Drunk Straight
The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof Grace--bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one...
03136 – Be Kind to Somebody Today
I work in a decent sized, local, indie bookstore. It’s a great job 99% of the time and a lot of our customers are pretty neat people. Any who, middle of the day this little old lady comes up. She’s lovably kooky. She effuses how much she loves the store and how she...
03118 – Jesus Says “Go” and “Find”
Jesus never says to the poor: "come, find the church," but he says to those of us in the church: "go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned."