I know what you are thinking: there wasn’t a moose at the manger when Jesus was born. And you’re right, well to a point. Matilda was there and she’s a moose. Matilda wasn’t inside the sable where it all happened. She had a good view, though, and she loves to tell the story of how … Read More
How do we as followers of Jesus reclaim this command to love our enemies and treat others as we wish to be treated?
These words are too easily put in service to the Empire rather than the work of liberation.
Do not demand agape, a deep, transforming love, if what is on offer is phileos, a binding, affectionate love. An Epiphany 5C sermon starter.
If healing, wholeness, forgiveness, unity, mercy do not result from our actions, then our actions are not the way of agape, the way of Christ.
We are to include and welcome those who cannot see their own value and those who have been devalued by the world.
we are meant to sing the song of Creation
join our voices with the river, the soil, the trees
The problem is that most of us do not alter our roads home after we encounter Empire; we just continue on as if nothing happened.
There’s not a lot of raising up happening, at least not in my neighborhood. I’m not even sure there are folx waiting for the Lord. I don’t think we know and we’ve dismissed so much of what we have heard. Sure, we might say that God is the Creator of all that is. I’m just … Read More
Lately, I’ve been studying Judaism’s communal identity. To be Jewish (and religious) is to belong to community and to have a sacred duty to work for its benefit. Moreover, there is a sacred responsibility to work to repair the world. There is no focus on individual spirituality, individual relationship with God in Judaism. Instead, there … Read More
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