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Long Road to Justice

Having just spent a day in Memphis, Tennessee, I am reminded of how much of our shared experience has been an impulse towards justice – and how much has been retrenchment into the compulsion for control to benefit a few.   The day was one of contrasts.  In the morning, staff from the appropriately named Hope Credit […]

God Is Nearby – May 4, 2022

“Christians throughout the ages have found… a God who takes the initiative, a God who is always beforehand with men, seeking them before they seek him. Jesus presents to us a “seeking” God whose very nature it is to go the whole way into the wilderness in quest of man. This morning I challenge you […]

Chaos or Community? – Jan. 18, 2021

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” -Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 1964

A Life Worth Living – Jan. 20, 2020

“If any of you are around when I have to meet my day, I don’t want a long funeral. And if you get somebody to deliver the eulogy, tell them not to talk too long. And every now and then I wonder what I want them to say. Tell them not to mention that I […]