How to Love
My heart sinks when I read the “new commandment” that Jesus gave to his followers: to love one another as he had loved them, because I know how far I am from that standard.* Pictures from all four gospels flood my mind: Jesus welcoming outcasts and misfits, “unclean” women and noisy children, leaders like Nicodemus and foreigners […]
The 3rd Commandment – Sep. 1, 2020
“To keep the Third Commandment (do not take YHVH, your God’s name in vain)… is to reclaim the name of YHVH–the concept of God and the nature of reality – as a force for justice and stewardship of the earth. It is to proclaim at every opportunity that the world we have been given is […]
