Entrusted to Act – Dec. 9, 2021
“Obviously, Martin Luther King was exceptional and he was dispatched by God in a peculiar way, and I think the same thing is true about William Barber now, but that doesn’t let the rest of us off the hook. The same mandate is available to those of us who are less gifted. We are entrusted […]
Judgement and Hope – Dec. 7, 2021
“A prophet is someone that tries to articulate the world as though God were really active in the world. And, that means on the one hand, to identify those parts of our world order that are contradictory to God, and on the other hand, it means to talk about the will and purpose that God […]
Steady Truth
I have long valued the story of the tender-hearted young boy who liked to walk on the mountain trails with his friend, an old monk. One day, the boy stopped still, staring at a butterfly on a bush blazing in the sunlight. He cried out, “O, Father, I see God in that bush!” The monk […]
How to Love God
The words “Hear, O Israel, the Lord is God, the Lord is One” have been familiar to me for longer than I can remember. Of course, I tend to remember them better in the original Hebrew that I learned to chant as soon as I could talk, and Jesus seems to have learned a different […]
