Listening to Each Other – Sept. 7, 2020
“The first service one owes to others in a community involves listening to them. Just as our love for God begins with listening to God’s Word, the beginning of love for others is learning to listen to them. God’s love for us is shown by the fact that God not only gives God’s Word, but […]
Flourishing by Learning – Sep. 4, 2020
“Surely God does not exist so that we can think correctly about Him— or Her. Amazingly and wonderfully, like all good parents, God desires instead the flourishing of what God created and what God loves— us ourselves. Ironically, we flourish more by learning from our mistakes and changing than by a straight course that teaches […]
A Small, Needful Fact – Sep. 3, 2020
Is that Eric Garner workedfor some time for the Parks and Rec.Horticultural Department, which means,perhaps, that with his very large hands,perhaps, in all likelihood,he put gently into the earthsome plants which, most likely,some of them, in all likelihood,continue to grow, continueto do what such plants do, like houseand feed small and necessary creatures,like being pleasant […]
How Does it Help? – Sep. 2, 2020
For how does it help a human beingto know diversity and abundance outsidebut lack an inner life? –Neil Douglas-Klotz, The Hidden Gospel, p. 115. Alternate reading of Matthew 16:26 “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” (KJV)