Christ in Community – Sept. 11, 2020
“To say ‘yes’ to Christ is to say ‘yes’ to people. To know Christ as God is to be organically, integrally part of a community, and to be ultimately responsible to Christ is to be responsible to others in Christ’s Body. Together we show the world who Christ is, until the entire broken human race […]
Changing Ourselves Together – Sept. 10, 2020
“To the extent that a community has a continuing life together we are going to be challenged at the point of our illusions about the kind of people we are. This does not mean that we intentionally seek to break the images of others. The task is always to change ourselves—to deal with that in […]
Heart to Heart – Sept. 9, 2020
“It is because we belong with others and see them as brothers and sisters in humanity that we learn not only to accept them as they are, with different gifts and capacities, but to see each one as a person with a vulnerable heart. We learn to forgive those who hurt us or reject us, […]
Growing Up Spiritually – Sept. 8, 2020
“Granted, just as some biological families are healthier than others, so are some spiritual families. But the fact remains we must have some spiritual family if we are to grow up spiritually. We must have a context—or what Parker Palmer calls a ‘congruent community’—if we are to become who we were created to become. If […]