Month: December 2012

Risk Love

Tragedies deposit the seeds of fear. Once our vision of an improving world is shattered we build walls to ensure future horrors do not touch us. We sterilize our emotions, cauterizing our feelings. We feign empathy and compassion for we know what they look like, even if we do … Continue reading

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Advent Is Always Implicit

Another Memorial Service today. Here in our out of the way place we remembered. Sixty-one years they shared. Their hope is always “to come” until Jesus’ Kingdom promise is fulfilled in real-time and space. But they shared glimpses. Bits of realized hope along the way. Always pointing to what … Continue reading

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Foraging In the Dark – Friday Photo

Over Labor Day we took Jason, Tommie, and Max to Colorado. Occasionally we have heard, even seen, a bear or two. My first attempts, several year ago, to capture them in the dark proved fruitless. I was looking back through the photographs from our most recent trip and thought … Continue reading

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Follow the Money, Endorsements Are Not Only Revealed in What We Give

Jim Wallis, of Sojourners, has long considered a budget to be a moral document. It reveals what we believe is important as a Country. We may apply this conviction to our own personal budgets and, yes, the budgets of Christian denominations.

Recently Bobby Ross Jr. wrote a … Continue reading

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