Singing of Angels – Dec. 30, 2019
This week’s reflections are from From the Inward Journey, a collection of writings by Howard Thurman, selected by his daughter, Anne Spenser Thurman. Thurman (1899 – 1981) was an African-American author, philosopher, theologian, educator, and civil rights leader who was involved in many social justice movements and organizations of the twentieth century. “There must be […]
Where to Seek Him – Dec. 27, 2019
We must not seek the Child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs.We must seek him among the undernourished children who have gone to bed tonight with nothing to eat,among the poor newsboys who will sleep covered with newspapers in doorways. –Archbishop Oscar Romero, December 24, 1979
Reaching Home – Dec. 26, 2019
“For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning–not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.” ―Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat
Into This World – Dec. 25, 2019
“Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ has come uninvited. But because he cannot be at home in it, because he is out of place in it, and yet he must be in it, his place is with those others for whom there is […]