Aug 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Chapter 1 of Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment by Jim Forest. Orbis, 2014. One day Jesus asked the question, “Do people gather figs from thistles?” The answer is of course no — you harvest what you plant. Plant thistles and...
Aug 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
Walter Brueggemann looks at Peter Bruegel's Way to Calvary. This film by Joonhee Park was premiered at the CIVA JUSTart conference in Wheaton, IL in June 2013.
Aug 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
Talk given (Aug 2014) at Iona pilgrimage with Friends of Orthodoxy on Iona, led by Metro. Kallistos Ware By Jim Forest One of the stories told about St Columba has to do with a custom still familiar to Orthodox Christians. How often we bring an object that has special...
Aug 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
"Let me tell you something, Mark. You humans, most of you, subscribe to this policy of an eye for an eye, a life for a life, which is known throughout the universe for its stupidity. "Even your Buddha and your Christ had quite a different vision; but...
Aug 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
God spoke Darkness came God was thereGod...
Jul 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
Jarrod McKenna's talk on 'Zoeology' was part 7 of a series at the Meeting House entitled 'We Believe: Christian Theology, learned, loved and lived.' Jarrod McKenna the National Advisor for Youth, Faith and Activism for World Vision Australia....