...there's an immediate relationship between God, oppression, liberation: God is in the poor who cry out. And God is the one who listens to the cry and liberates, so that the poor no longer need to cry out.
04204 – No Need to Cry Out
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04128 – Love Affair vs. Marriage
A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. But marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That’s why it’s a sacrament: you give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you’re giving, you’re not giving to...
04072 – One Step at a Time
When you say something I disagree with, and I immediately react to your comment, I probably need to slow down a bit. If I can show that I have an intention to understand your point of view instead of “proving I am right,” it strengthens our relationship, and both of...
04021 – Treasured Diversity
Ever present God, you called us to be in relationship with one another and promised to dwell wherever two or three are gathered. In our community, we are many different people; we come from many different places, have many different cultures. Open our hearts that we...
03919 – The Little Voice Inside
Be kind to those who disagree. And be strong enough to be true to the most important relationship of all: the one with that little voice inside that keeps insisting that you know the way to go. from Beautiful and Terrible Things
03541 – Key to Relationship with God
I think good preachers should be like bad kids. They ought to be naughty enough to tiptoe up on dozing congregations, steal their bottles of religion pills, spirituality pills, and morality pills, and flush them all down the drain. The church, by and large, has...
03063 – Regain the Magic?
Commentary writer and professor, Thomas Slater, says this about Ephesians. “Many people say that ‘competition’ brings advancement. Rarely do people who love others and wish the best for others say this. This statement gives some people the license to ignore the...
02871 – Heroes and Sheroes
We live in direct relation to the heroes and sheroes we have. The men and women who without knowing our names or recognizing our faces, risked and sometimes gave their lives to support our country and our way of living. We must say thank you.
02436 – Inner Truth: A Plumb Line
I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life--about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.
02417 – Compassion & Our Shared Humanity
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.