May 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
“….when they suffer, we suffer with them. Whether we know it or not, we suffer with them.”–The Dearly Beloved, Cara Wall I don’t know if this truth is THE key, but surely it’s a key to awakening compassion and radical empathy. To understand that when...
May 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
John Cassian and the Israel-Palestine Conflict John Cassian was a fourth-century Christian theologian who founded two monasteries, and wrote three major treatises: The Institutes, The Conferences, and On the Incarnation of Christ against Nestorius. The...
May 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
What if the Bible is an "artist's palette" rather than a "finished painting?" What if one of our callings here is to hone and develop an artist's loving eye with regard to reading the truths of Scripture? What if our gut is...
May 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
If you will not love your enemy This line will never move Interrupt the pattern Break the circle of pain If you will not love your enemy The horizon just looks the same Interrupt the pattern Be unexpected…transfigure and change If you will not love your enemy...
May 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Risk of Hospitality* Lois Mitchell (PhD)Professor EmeritusSt. Stephen’s University May 5, 2021 I’m not a risk-taker. I don’t buy lottery tickets. I don’t run for political office (well, actually I DID run for political office quite recently but with...
May 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
Silent Songs “There is nothing new under the sun,” posits the author(s) of Hebrew wisdom lit. There are days when I accept this as truth, as readily as I welcome a rising sun. And there are other days when I must “kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight”...
