After detailing the experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer persons in countries with anti-gay laws. Justin Adkins gives ideas about how to help
Over and over the challenge of Christianity is to turn away from the pecking order instinct and the rule of the jungle and replace them with rules that are golden. Love of God and love of neighbor are the new paradigm that Jesus preaches and Jesus lives.
Where are the places in your life where ambition ran wild in your past, but the lack of wisdom really threw a monkey wrench in it? How did wisdom teach you to see the same sort of situation in a new way?
“Oh, wow, if I’d done that at church, my granny would have turned me into a little red grease spot on the church steps.” At the very least, she would have applied her version of the Vulcan Nerve Pinch on my shoulder, never looking at me, but making it painfully clear I’d better straighten up and fly right. It’s amazing how those old memories can bring an almost instantaneous rush to judgment.
I don’t know about anybody else, but it makes me think I need to try a bit harder to live into that “saint” thing. … It takes work and training, and I think I’d better get busy. The finish line is getting closer every day. And also it reminds me to look around — I may be seeing the birthing process of a new saint for the calendar.
The Feast Day of Frederick Douglass, Prophetic Witness Everyday Mysteries With others she manages a website for the Diocese of Colorado highlighting congregations’ creative ministries:
Bishop Mouneer Anis joins call for an end to violence by Christians against Muslims in the Central African Republic.
We support reproductive justice not in spite of our faith, but because of it. While we recognize that some people of faith strongly disagree with us, we do not believe that the strength of their convictions entitles them to force choices upon other people.
How does an acceptance and acknowledgment of sexuality change development policy and practice? heteronormativity – the assumption that heterosexuality is the only sexual orientation –
Ash Wednesday and Lent are coming in 2 weeks. What are your plans this year? 40 ways to keep a joyful, thankful, holy Lent: Lent