January 2010
7 posts
Haiti Aid →
You can text “Haiti” to 90999 to give $10 to the Red Cross to help with Haiti relief. Obviously, this is a tragedy of growing and monumental proportions.
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The Authority of Those Who Have Suffered
If religion is not primarily a belonging system, but is truly a transformational system, one would need, it seems to me, a very different kind of authority. One would need the guidance and conviction of one who has actually walked a journey of transformation himself or herself. One would need the authority of a person who can say, “I know what God does with pain. I should be blaming or bitter, but...
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The Justice of God
The end had come and all the nations and people had gathered around the judgement seat of God to await the justice he would execute. Sinners, evil doers, doubters, and the apathetic trembled as one by one they approached the throne. Shockingly though as they came before him, God waved his hand and sent them on their way–they were free to go! The scum of the universe were not sentenced to...
What am I waiting for?
When we celebrate New Year’s Day, we celebrate the rebirth of time. We wait for our God to do new things. We wait for who we are, and who we are to become. We wait for the coming of grace, for the unfolding of Mystery. We wait for the always bigger Truth. We wait for the vision of the Whole. But we cannot just wait. We must pray. Our prayers then start naming and defining...