I'm not all that interested in future church trends or new growth techniques. For 2000 years, the most relevant church has always been the one gathering around a table, caring for the neighborhood, following the words and ways of Jesus.
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.
You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way." from Jonathan Livingston Seagull
We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring back home those who have lost their way.
Life doesn’t always go the way we plan. We are called to adjust and readjust. And know that you are loved through it all.
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
Advent is a powerful time to remember that we are in process. We await the arrival not of the cute little baby Jesus, but of the new consciousness he represents—a new way of perceiving and reacting to “reality.” Jesus’ birth heralds the arrival of what we’ve come to...
Every day in a hundred small ways our children ask, "Do you see me? Do you hear me? Do I matter?" Their behavior often reflects our response.
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to Hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
But it is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself. For then we confuse wishes, hopes, sighs, laments, rejoicing--all of which the heart can do by itself--with prayer. And we confuse heaven and earth, human...