Some friends and I go to Golden Gate Park every week, sit on what is historically known as “Hippie Hill” just above the “Janis Joplin Tree” to worship and pray for our friends in the park and beyond. Yes, this is the very place you saw on the news where thousands converge on 4/20 …
James on Justice (An Appeal for Classless Christianity) Intro Part 1
Check out the series of audio podcasts through the Book of James that I’m in the process of producing. Introduction Part 1 is only 16 minutes long and fills in some of my skeleton thoughts here. Thus all the “…” In a nutshell, James is about how Classism and Christianity clash… “Classism,” according to the dictionary, …
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TO DANCE OR TO DIRGE? (Wisdom’s Many Children) Part 2
In Part 1 we talked about how it takes more than one person, one church, one political party, or one culture to represent true wisdom, and how an over-identification with one over another is not only unwise but immature. Jesus said it reminded him of spoiled children whining about not getting their way. “To what, …
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TO DANCE OR TO DIRGE? (Wisdom’s Many Children) Part 1
“To what, then, can I compare the people of this generation? What are they like? They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other: “‘We played the pipe for you, and you did not dance, we sang a dirge, and you did not cry.’ For John the Baptist came neither …
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Widows? Which Widows?
We Christians are people-helpers. It’s in the Spirit-loaded software at new birth. Problem is, we often insist on preserving the right to be selective about the recipients of our aid, as though there’s some substantive difference between one kind of human and another. The earliest Christians discovered this tendency in themselves and made the …
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