May 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Psalm 2 The Reign of the LORD’S Anointed. 1 Why are the nations in an uproar And the peoples devising a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth take their stand And the rulers take counsel together Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying, 3 “Let us tear...
May 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
A Contemplative Response To Our Present Economic Super-Agenda “When civilizations start to die they go insane.” So begins a recent piece by Chris Hedges. “Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt,” he says. “Let the temperatures rise. Let the air,...
May 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
Public discussion of religion tends to polarize between two extremes: religious fundamentalism, and the aggressive atheism of such writers as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. But much of what people actually believe falls somewhere in between. It is subtler...
Apr 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
This is the first of several reflections Neaners had on the story of Mary and Martha in the gospel of Luke. From his context, he reads the familiar story not as the old tension between action vs. contemplation, busyness vs. prayer, but competition vs. unity at...
Apr 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
When Gracie and I moved to Honduras in July 1982 the country was considered the poorest in the Western Hemisphere. Wars raged in the region and death-squad violence created a climate of terror. Over the last 30 years we’ve witnessed the power of God’s...
Mar 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
God Sent Snakes(Numbers 14) God sent snakes. Killed the bastards for complaining just because...
