
North Texas trauma continues
E-mails exchanged between opposing legal counsel encapsulates the on-going antagonism between the two sides.
E-mails exchanged between opposing legal counsel encapsulates the on-going antagonism between the two sides.
“God of the table,
prepare a place for us
to love and be loved
to know and be known
to forgive and be forgiven.”
“So, here is this greatly respected British writer and theologian, almost twenty years a teacher at Magdalen College, having pints with J.R.R. at the bird and the baby and winding up a Christian at the end of it all.”
Joe may have set his parent’s house on fire with his ugly Jesus collection and Drew uses religious guilt to steal the shirt off of man’s back. Then they start trying to figure out how you can turn the other cheek and also carry a pistol.
We’re beginning our conversation on the sacraments, those mysterious moments when we recognize the spirit of God breaking out in our lives. Plus we talk about kissing in church and the virtue of tin cans and string as a communications device.
Y’all: Harriet Tubman is *even more* badass than we knew from history class. Check out our pod to learn more today!
“Our kingdom is not of this world. It is a vast, ancient, living being that grows and transforms with each life that is born into it. It heals us and cares for us as we reach out in care for the world. It is the Truth.”
I would say if Rittenhouse had been Black, he most likely would not have come out of that night alive. A young white man brazenly carrying an automatic weapon through city streets was virtually ignored by law enforcement. Had it been a Black man, I do believe the result would be drastically different. – Bishop Greg Rickel
“Someone shares how when they were young, they felt a comforting presence when her step mother was mean to her and sent her to her bedroom. She says now, looking back, she knows that she can see that it was Christ with her. This presence lifted her out of fear and comforted her from the pain.”
“The Way of Jesus was a threat to the power and empires of the world. Yet, periodically, Jesus’s followers have been tempted to claim that Jesus’s kingdom IS of this world, to claim that Jesus loves the same few people he loves and hates the same people we fear or despise. But Jesus is not about power, but service.”