“Something transpires in those moments. I honestly don’t know if it’s a passing breeze of the Holy Spirit or not, but I like to think it is. Either way, feeding another person in such an intimate manner can raise the hair on your arms or bring unexpected tears to your eyes. “
What if all we need to do is trust that we are made good? What if all we need to do is trust that God loves and likes us?
Detroit is a complex new film by Director Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker). The film chronicles the race riots of 1967 but shines the light specifically on the now well-known Algiers Motel incident.
Then 60,000 white people screamed at Bono’s pandering, “America! You are the Dream!” Meanwhile, I couldn’t stop wondering how many of them were updating their status to “MLK never blocked traffic!” while we marched for Laquan McDonald and Rekia Boyd
Robert Azzi speaks to the real and present danger of Islamophobia in America today
Is the current process of clergy transition in the Episcopal Church an effective way to bring new clergy leadership to parishes or is it irredeemably broken? As is often the case in the Episcopal Church, it is somewhere in the middle.
Might it not be possible that by extending the creation story by one more day, we could see what can be possible after rest and re-creation?
The most critical need of our time is not to define and redefine the term Islamophobia so that we can find out who is Islamophobic and who is not, rather it is to address the origin and the misuse of the term Islamophobia to ensure the protection of the First Amendment.
We mock God when we think we have done great things. We have not. We have done small things. The great thing is the way a crab reflects colors in a rock-bowl of water by the sea in Maine on a summer’s day.
We have been asked what it is like being a gay person at Palmer Memorial Church. The answer is that being gay is a nonissue