Faith seeking understanding– without race
My heart is with my siblings in Ukraine. Russia is attacking their home, starting a war during a global pandemic. I pray for their peace and protection. I mourn for the lives lost to the vanities of war and power’s greed. I pray that we will be able to see ourselves without either. Masks on, […]
Read More“Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.” | First Corinthians 10.24, ESV Put down your phone and pick up a book. Yes, I am a purist who still believes in turning actual pages. I’m showing my age in this digital world. I know that they are bulky but evangelism, […]
Read MoreThis is not what I had in mind. When I became a Christian, I though that I joined a family, that we all loved each other. Have you ever tried to get all the Christians in a room? I thought we were a body. But, not just any body– Christ’s. Far from his truth, we […]
Read More“The doors of the church are open.” This reminder needs to scroll below news reports of border walls constructed to protect against the “alien invasion” of our neighbor. Because there are no illegal human beings, no one smuggled from the mind of God to earth and our humanity requires no paperwork. Because “the earth is […]
Read More“Community life is martyrdom by fire: it means the daily sacrifice of all of our strength and all our rights, all the claims we commonly make on life and assume to be justified. In the symbol of fire, the individual logs burn away so that, united, its glowing flames send out warmth and light and […]
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The Raceless Gospel 