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The Silence of Our Friends

June 25, 2017 2 Comments

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

A review of the new Wonder Woman by Emily Wachner: “I have encouraged boys and girls alike to direct their admiration to the hero of the Gospels. And yet, my thirty-four-year-old self wept in awe in a dark theater in Manhattan as I watched Wonder Woman, and saw myself in her.”

The gospel that we proclaim cannot be shoved into our pocket

June 24, 2017 No Comments

Archbishop Fred Hiltz’s opening remarks to Council of General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada

On the sacredness of whales

June 24, 2017 No Comments

Yonder is the sea, great and wide, Creeping things innumerable are there, Living things both small and great.

Hotter’n Hell

June 24, 2017 No Comments

I’ll still say it’s hotter’n Hell if the temperature gets above 115°, but this week I think I will try to maintain the right kind of thoughts about Hell and think of how it can be interpreted.

Evangelizing the “old”

June 23, 2017 2 Comments

… the church should be spending more time evangelizing the fastest growing demographic group – older people.

Littermates

June 23, 2017 2 Comments

When we begin to see all of humanity–and maybe all of the non-human created world, to boot–as “our litter”–something changes in us…and it’s precisely the “something” that hooks us to God. We forget about the power of grace–until it comes in on “little cat feet.”