Changed Hearts Change the World

โ€œChanging the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but are as interconnected as the two beams of the cross.โ€ Henri Nouwen Social radicalism apart from faith โ€œhas been like a cut flower without nourishment, without any sanctions deeper than human courage and good intentions.โ€ Walter Brueggemann[i] For the first three hundred …

5-Minute Meditations on the Sermon on the Mount (Chapter 12 of WHAT ON EARTH? a book by Barney Wiget)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCWP_zY5_04 Chapter 12 of WHAT ON EARTH? / The โ€œOuchlessโ€ Church Suggestions for Personal Reflection, Group Discussion, and Taking Action for: What do you think of the statement by Breneยด Brown? โ€œI wanted faith to work like an epidural; to numb the pain of vulnerability.  As it turned out, my faith ended up being more …

5-Minute Meditations on the Sermon on the Mount (Chapter 10 & 11 of WHAT ON EARTH? a book by Barney Wiget)

https://videopress.com/v/MoZ5gkF3?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Suggestions for Personal Reflection, Group Discussion, and Taking Action for: Chapters 10 & 11 of WHAT ON EARTH? / The Groan of the Godly & The Collective โ€œOuch!โ€ Explain how the first Beatitude leads to the second.We contend that tears shed in grief, uncertainty, confusion, and fear can be โ€œgood tears.โ€ Agree or disagree? Why?Where else in …

5-Minute Meditations on the Sermon on the Mount (Chapter 1 of WHAT ON EARTH? a book by Barney Wiget)

https://youtu.be/wo7MyF8kMls The Big Idea Suggestions for Personal Reflection, Group Discussion, and Taking Action for the book: WHAT ON EARTH? Considering the Social Implications of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount Chapter 1 - Whatโ€™s the BIG IDEA? What do you think E. Stanley Jones meant by calling the Sermon โ€œA working philosophy of life.โ€I claim that …

A Kingdom Needs a Constitution

All social and governmental entities require a document that communicates the fundamental principles around which they choose to govern themselves. The revolutionaries of the New World knew they needed a way to articulate their vision for their embryonic society, some purposes and parameters for how they and their descendants were to live together. Every commonwealth …