Do your children know that your favorite artists are people of faith? Do your grandchildren and their friends appreciate what they were saying with their art? How does your own theology compare? Can you talk about that with your friends?
by Leslie Scoopmire Luke 12:13-21 In one of my favorite movies, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, there’s a pivotal scene involving Ferris’s friend Cameron finally venting
Jesus’s message about prayer is less about the words, “Our father… hallowed be… thy kingdom… give us… forgive us…” It is much more about this: You already know how to do it.
To be honest, we might be the weeds ourselves. Let’s not be complacent. Let’s not think more highly of ourselves than we do our neighbors. Let God take care of gathering in the crop.
The Diocese of Northern Uganda has been praised by the country’s armed forces for its crisis response in support for the thousands of refugees streaming into the country from South Sudan.
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We all have flaws, weaknesses and blindnesses that are uniquely ours. Spiritual growth involves getting to know and love them as integral parts of us.
Through their ground-breaking work we have inherited a better world and been shown an example of how finding the good news in our own faith can give us the strength to go out and share the Good News of love and grace and change the world in the process.
Here is the the thing
about galaxies, suns, and planets in their courses
about civilizations and communities,
Our reading also reminds us that when we show empathy and solidarity in the struggles of another, our task is simple–show up, and remain awake.