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…
Madeleine L'Engle Taking Being Time I sit on my favourite rock, looking over the brook, to take time away from busyness, time to be. I’ve long since stopped feeling guilty about taking being time; it’s…
Religion News Service Brenda Salter McNeil on racial justice: ‘Silence is violence’ from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/08/14/brenda-salter-mcneil-racial-justice-expert-brenda-church-becoming-brave-silence-violence/
Marcus Borg Thin places and open hearts A thin place is anywhere our hearts are opened….There are many kinds of thin places. Some are “secular” in that they are not explicitly religious. For example, nature, especially wilderness…
Kathleen Norris Children of God Working with children on the writing of poetry has let me to ponder the ways that most of us become exiled from the certainties of childhood; how it is that…
Lori Erickson Mexico City’s Shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe Mexico City’s Shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe by Lori Erickson
Uncategorized A life insurance policy on the planet In the debate over climate change, does it not make logical sense to take out a life insurance policy on the planet? If there is any chance that the prevailing…
Barbara Brown Taylor A Deeper Message But there is a deeper message in the sermon at Nazareth, which is that no one owns God. The great religions may possess genuine revelations of God’s nature and purpose.…
Frederick Buechner Life is With The temptation is always to reduce life to size. A bowl of cherries. A rat race. Amino acids. Even to call it a mystery smacks of reductionism. It is the…
Brian McLaren Not a Constitution I freely acknowledge that Plato and Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius and Einstein, Muhammad and the Buddha all say interesting and brilliant and inspiring things, and I can learn a lot from…
Stephen Mattson Political Propaganda is Destroying Christianity by Stephen Mattson https://www.redletterchristians.org/political-propaganda-is-destroying-christianity/
Religion News Service For white Christians, racial justice starts with telling the truth by Robert P. Jones, on Religion News Service Perhaps the biggest obstacle to white Christians’ full participation in the movement for racial equality is an unshakable commitment to our own…
Diana Butler Bass Jesus gives water, and he is water. SCRIPTURE: If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, “Give me a drink,” you would have asked him, and he would have…
Diana Butler Bass The earth as part of the body of God The late Irish Catholic priest and philosopher John O’Donohue called the land “the firstborn of creation” and the “condition of the possibility of everything.” The earth itself, he insisted, holds…
Religion News Service A call for moral leadership Six divinity school deans and seminary presidents release a joint statement on the state of our national leadership. from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/06/23/a-call-for-moral-leadership/
Religion News Service Let’s stop pretending that virtual worship isn’t here to stay from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/07/24/lets-stop-pretending-that-virtual-worship-isnt-here-to-stay/
