Frederick Buechner A Crazy, Holy Grace A crazy, holy grace I have called it. Crazy because whoever could have predicted it? Who can ever foresee the crazy how and when and where of a grace that…
John Pavlovitz I Hate Police Brutality, Not the Police by John Pavlovitz https://johnpavlovitz.com/2020/08/29/i-hate-police-brutality-not-the-police/
Joan Chittister The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gradually by Joan Chittister https://www.joanchittister.org/word-from-joan/very-sweet-part-growing-older
Alexia Salvatierra We Go There: Abortion by Lisa Sharon Harper, from Red Letter Christians https://www.redletterchristians.org/we-go-there-abortion/
Simone Campbell Praying for a New Creation to Come from Chaos by Sister Simone Campbell https://networklobby.org/082120prayer/
Religion News Service Trump or Biden? What’s a Catholic voter to do? from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/08/27/trump-or-biden-whats-a-catholic-voter-to-do/
Religion News Service More than 350 faith leaders to back Biden for president, including many first-time endorsers from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/08/27/many-first-time-endorsers-included-in-list-of-more-than-350-faith-leaders-backing-biden-for-president/
Diana Butler Bass Gratitude involves not only what we feel, but also what we do. It cannot be overstated that gratitude is an emotion, a complex set of feelings involving appreciation, humility, wonder, and interdependence. Gratitude is, however, more than just an emotion. It is…
Brian McLaren Inspiration Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: So we judge internal tension and debate as flaws or failures in the components of a constitution, but…
Uncategorized Becoming Brave: Finding the Courage to Pursue Racial Justice Now A new book by Brenda Salter McNeil Becoming Brave offers a distinctly Christian framework for addressing systemic injustice. It challenges Christians to be everyday activists who become brave enough to break…
Frederick Buechner With Great Laughter by Frederick Buechner Part of the farce was that for the first time in my life that year in New York, I started going to church regularly, and what was…
Richard Rohr Order, Disorder, Reorder by Richard Rohr https://cac.org/order-disorder-reorder-part-one-weekly-summary-2020-08-15/
Patricia Raybon On Hearing Christ, Not Chaos and Conspiracies by Patricia Raybon https://www.incourage.me/2020/08/on-hearing-christ-not-chaos-and-conspiracies.html
Father James Martin Prayers at the D.N.C. by Sr. Simone Campbell and Fr. James Martin https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/08/20/read-prayers-dnc-sister-simone-campbell-father-james-martin-democratic-convention
Diana Butler Bass Awakening Now? by Diana Butler Bass https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/awakening-now?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy
Mark Feldmeir When the cost of error is too high, the wise hedge their bets. Axiom #1: When the cost of error is too high, the wise hedge their bets. If, for ideological reasons, we cannot agree that human activity contributes to climate change, then…
Mark Feldmeir An alternative to self-interested values For Jesus, a politics of love manifests itself in the form of compassion, which in Latin means literally to “suffer with another.” Genuine compassion evokes a deep concern for the…
Madeleine L'Engle Christian art? Christian art? Art is art; painting is painting; music is music; a story is a story. If it’s bad art, it’s bad religion, no matter how pious the subject. If…
Uncategorized When did you know? And what did you do? A Christian response to climate change begins with reclaiming the intimate connection humans once had with creation through simple practices such as gardening, animal husbandry, composting, harvesting rainwater, birdwatching, spending…
