Dec 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
My own discipline, social work, emerged in part out of the social gospel movement of the early 1900s. One of the great minds of that movement, the Baptist preacher Walter Rauschenbusch, once gave the conference sermon at a gathering of social workers....
Dec 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
I have a story to tell. I struggle with telling it, not wanting to become yet another loud voice screaming into an echo chamber of ideas. But it needs to be told and if you will listen I hope it will be a story of restoration and freedom to you. I...
Dec 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
Lectio divina on this morning’s second reading from the Daily Lectionary. Click here to read it. "you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness." (1 Thess 5:5) Of course, Indigo Girls fan that I am, I...
Nov 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
“God has only sons and daughters,” the pope said. “We are the ones who raise walls, build barriers, and label people. God has sons and daughters precisely so that no one will be turned away.” Francis said “our instinctive reaction” is to “discredit or curse” those who...
Nov 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
I have always had a precarious relationship with breathing. My very first breaths were problematic, or so I have been told. My childhood and school years were punctuated by asthmatic episodes; I toted quick response meds as regularly as pencils and...
Nov 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
George Takei is an actor, activist and social media maven. The United States apologized for locking up Japanese Americans. Have we learned nothing? An excerpt: There is dangerous talk these days by those who have the ear of some at the highest levels of government....
