he’d come here
I want to share my favorite Christmas story with any of you who haven’t heard it before. It was written by Harriet Richie and published in the December 13, 1995 issue of The Christian Century. After...
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Humility is the first step Acknowledging that you cannot Pull the right strings, making life dance to your beat, or Push the right buttons to guarantee the future You have in mind. Now is the time! the...
View Articlenot crusaders for jesus, but followers of jesus
From an editorial by John Buchanan in the February 6, 2007 edition of The Christian Century … I was representing my denomination on a visit to Croatia, not long after the shooting between Croats,...
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From a Christian blog I read: General Peter Pace’s comments calling homosexuals acts as immoral, and Senator Sam Brownback’s comments backing the General up are nothing less than hateful … Grace is...
View Articleconsidering the cross
Either God was not in Christ and the cross is the ultimate symbol of all the meaninglessness that can destroy us, the absence of God, the triumph of the secular powers. Or God was in Christ and the...
View Articlethirty-three prayer flags
Yesterday, as classes resumed at Virginia Tech, students gathered around a display of thirty-three white prayer flags. Thirty-three flags … one each for the thirty-three people who died the previous...
View Article“christian hate” should be an oxymoron!
I attach below an excerpt from a forwarded e mail I received the other day … … when I hear a story about a brave marine roughing up an Iraqi terrorist to obtain information, know this: I don’t care....
View Articlea meditation for good friday
When the disciples who were with Jesus saw what was going to happen, they asked, “Shall we use our swords, Lord?” And one of them struck the High Priest’s slave and cut off his right ear. But Jesus...
View Articlethe furious longing of god
I was recently invited to join the members of the TheOOZE Viral Blogger Network. You can learn more about the Ooze online community by following the link listed in my blog’s Links list. Each month,...
View Articlechange of heart
This last Sunday, I shared some of Jeanne Bishop’s story in my sermon entitled, Be the church: forgive often. In April, 1990, Jeanne’s pregnant sister and her sister’s husband were murdered in their...
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