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Quick thoughts for the weekend
Random thoughts that entered my mind this week: We honor the prophets… after we have killed them. I want to stop saying why something “won’t work” and start saying, “LET’S TRY.”
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Christ IS coming again
It is Advent. Over the last few years when I have learned more about Advent, and then joined the Anglican Church, I have a deep love for this season of the Church Year. It takes some practice to get used to Advent. Once you do, though, you will never want it any other way. — Fleming Rutledge
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Bonhoeffer’s approach to the rise of Nazism
It was 1933 and the German national church was almost entirely on board with Nazi propaganda. Over 90 percent of the student body in the theology department at the university in Berlin had joined the National Socialist Party.
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The prophetic church
Bonhoeffer asked the powerful question: When will it be that Christianity says the right word at the right time?
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Bonhoeffer’s powerful question
Bonhoeffer asked this significant question in the early 1930s. It is one I constantly ask in my decades of following Christ as well:
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Keeping calm in chaotic times
We can — we must! — take responsibility for the way we live and work in our homes and neighborhoods, workplaces and public squares. We can refuse to permit the culture to dictate the way we go about our lives. More HERE.
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Prayers as we vote
A prayer against apathy God of empathy and compassion, we are grateful you do not sit idly by without concern for your people. In your deep love for us, you sent your only Son to walk among us, to know what it is to be human, and to suffer on our behalf. O Lord, as your humble servants, give us…
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Prayers for the election season
A prayer for the opposing candidates King of the universe, you who reign over all things, we submit to you our thoughts, feelings, and frustrations about the candidate we disagree with. May we not look at them with contempt, and may we be reminded that they, too, are created in your image. We pray for protection over all political candidates…
Tag: Justice
