We’ve finally put away the last vestige of our Christmas decorations and sang our final traditional carols for another year. If you think about the lyrics of your seasonal favorites, how do they compare to what is known as the Arab world’s favorite carol, called “On Christmas Night” written during the civil war in Lebanon …
“A Knock at Midnight”
Celebrate MLK Day with some of my favorite excerpts from his landmark sermon called “A Knock at Midnight”: “Now this numerical growth of the Church is not to be over-emphasized. We must not succumb to the temptation of confusing spiritual power with big numbers. Jumboism, as someone has called it, is an utterly fallacious standard …
Some Final Thoughts on Thinking
The Best Lens Thru’ Which to View the World
Where Shalom is Needed Most
Shalom is tested best on society’s margins and is exposed by how the disempowered are treated. When you find an enormous discrepancy between the opportunities for the rich and the poor or the white and the black or men and women, shalom is AWOL. Systemic injustice is what someone called “violence in slow motion.” Jesus’ …
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