Well, since people have been asking me about this journey of mine concerning racism…
Continue reading “The conversation about “whiteness””Sitting on porches and learning
I have been part of the Renovare Book Club this season. It’s an online discussion group that picks four books in a school year to read together and discuss online (or have a group if you can find enough people locally). The selections this year were compelling (starting with a biography of my spiritual hero Dallas Willard), so I joined in. Our last book is by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from the Slaveholder Religion.
Continue reading “Sitting on porches and learning”What is freedom?
“Freedom in Christ is to be released from perpetual inner conflict into ‘the glorious liberty of the children of God’ (Rom. 8:21) where we are enabled to live, not by our own tyrannical wishes, but for the love of others.” — Fleming Rutledge
It is our INABILITY and Christ’s ABILITY
We’ve spent a couple of centuries at least trying deconstruct the work of the Cross and the power of the Resurrection. We’ve lost the ancient path.
Continue reading “It is our INABILITY and Christ’s ABILITY”The risk of the resurrection
We have been recruited, through the resurrection, to go into the Father’s “business.” It is the forgiveness business.
Continue reading “The risk of the resurrection”Holy Saturday
O God, Creator of heaven and earth: Grant that, as the crucified body of your dear Son was laid in the tomb and rested on this holy Sabbath, so we may await with him the coming of the third day, and rise with him to newness of life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Friday — into the darkness
O Sacred head now wounded
With grief and shame weighed down
Now scornfully surrounded
With thorns Thy only crown
How pale Thou art with anguish
With sore abuse and scorn
How does that visage languish
Which once was bright as morn
— “O Sacred Head Now Wounded”, Bernard of Clairvaux
