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The End of Hunger: There is good news
I have reviewed The End of Hunger previously, but a brief review won’t capture the flood of thoughts hitting me. The issue of hunger, poverty, or climate change relies on a main factor for motivation and action: panic. The fuel of any issue is the old news adage: “If it bleeds it leads.” There has to be a sense of…
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Book Review: The End of Hunger
This book creates a big problem for me. There is so much to work through and think through it’s impossible to put it in a book review. This is a book for thought, for contemplation, for discussion, and then for action. The book is edited by Jenney Eaton Dyer and Cathleen Falsani, but the feature is the articles by so…
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Praying for the persecuted church
Yesterday was a day of prayer in our church for the worldwide persecuted church. We called out several places in the world where believers meet in “underground” (or hidden) churches. I was mindful of some friends who recently had less that 24 hours to evacuate a country because their lives were in danger. They were there only to show the…
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Like water to my soul
I am in the process of discernment concerning ordination in the Anglican Church in North America. As part of that process we were invited to attend the diocese annual synod and the clergy conference before the synod.
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The painful purifying of the American Church
I love John Crist’s videos. News of years of sexual harassment and misconduct broke earlier this week. Yet another failure.
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Spiritually homeless … no more
A couple of podcasts this week have caught my attention. They expressed almost perfectly the internal struggle I’ve had for a number of years. While the views I heard would seem to say they are still “spiritually homeless”, I would say in my own life that is no longer true. Yet, I am thankful for these voices that speak out…
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Living in the gospel wrecks your daily schedule
Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples, together with a large crowd, were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus (which means “son of Timaeus”), was sitting by the roadside begging. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” (Mark 10:46-47) The way of…
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The way to greatness
43 Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, 44 and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. (Mark 10:43-44) We look for ways to greatness. Christ shows us the way of service.
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We think we have “ultimate question” but we don’t
“What do I do to inherit eternal life?” (Mark 10:17) We want the “ultimate answers” settled without looking right in front of us. If we’d look right in front of us we’d find the answers to our “ultimate” questions. And we’d find those “ultimate” questions less vital.
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Happy Birthday Will Rogers
Some of his sayings: Never let yesterday use up too much of today. The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.…
