Yet, we still have our boundaries regarding who is in and who is out. Food no longer defines the borders of our community life. Now it’s sexual orientation, gender identification, socio-economic status, body size, being married, lifestyle choices, even being a woman can get you on the other side of the boundary in some places.
I wonder – where is today’s wisdom to be found? What elders do we listen to for their wisdom gained by education and experience? Where is God in all of this?
God’s presence in our lives is not only sustaining, but also sweet.
I am the man who was ransomed by a hundred pigs, a hundred pigs and one young stranger. The swineherds have never forgiven me. Whenever they see me they throw rocks and obscenities.
Why does Paul clamp down on Christian non-compliance?
For all its lovely, lyrical beauty this gospel contains Christianity’s essential challenge in the starkest terms: Love the stranger and the inconvenient… love the ungrateful and the annoying… love the broken and the destitute… love the aged and the addicted… love the sinner.
If you had prophetic powers, how would you use them? Today we explore the surprising way that Jesus uses his.
The call is to see the divine spark even in those different from us, who are easily overlooked. That’s love in action in this moment right here.
If God values the life of a sparrow, or anything else, how much more can we as humans be valued in God’s sight? Do we have the right to say that this person or that one has little value to us because they aren’t like us in some way — physically, culturally, educationally, financially, religiously– and therefore have no value to God?
Philip and James inspire us by sharing the gospel, and a Feast Day, with a friend.