St. John of the Cross knew that the dark night of the Soul is a period that marks the beginning of transformation. The bleakest times hold that promise, even when we can get nowhere near it intellectually or emotionally.
Humility is the power of connection. Then, once humility has been exercised with some real, meaningful, tangible, evident action of a way of being; then, and only then, can one connect.
Eighty-one percent of Alabama’s white evangelicals who voted in Alabama’s senate election yesterday voted for Roy Moore, weighing his professed conservative Christian values against a record of racist, anti-LGBTQ and anti-women’s rights rhetoric, and more recent accusations of sexual assault against minors.
…first-century readers would have been so struck by the scandalous-ness of the gospels and by their confrontation with the power claims of the Empire, that the gospels would have been banned books of the highest order. It should not be surprising that so many first-century Christians were killed by the Romans.
“God is showing us the Way to become God’s children, and as God’s children, brothers and sisters of each other. God is showing us in Jesus how to become God’s family and how to change, and build, and make a world where everybody is a part of that family. Where children don’t go to bed hungry. Where no one has to be lonely. Where justice is real for all and where love is the ultimate law.”
“Some of the opposing submissions state that the Anglican Church is a rich institution, a private organisation and not a public body, and should pay for the restoration itself.
But people stating this view are forgetting that the Church did not want to restore the building – it wanted to replace it with a cheaper, contemporary structure.” – Ric Stevens in The Post
I’m tired of waiting. Of wanting peace. Of wishing for justice. Of longing for an end to violence. I’m tired of waiting. Just come, Lord, Jesus. Now. I’m ready.
The Church of Latter Day Saints has donated a total of $5 million to nine different voluntary refugee resettlement agencies in the United States. One of the nine, receiving a total of $250 thousand, is Episcopal Migration Ministries.
Charlottesville, VA hired former US Attorney Tim Heaphy to conduct an independent review of the events of August 12, when violence broke out during a white supremacist rally.
Advent is about waiting. We are learning to be patient. We are learning the difference between being nice and being in God’s love.