“And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you.” ~ […]
Believing in race has cost us our identity. We have yet to see who we really are. So covered up in stereotypes, our true self has yet to be acknowledged much less accepted. Believing in race has cost us our authenticity. Instead, we all “wear the mask that grins and lies.” We not only pretend […]
“The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers…” ~ Ephesians 4.11, NRSV Unfortunately, most of us treat the social coloring of skin, the shape of our noses the texture of our hair as a gift from God. However, we believe that some not all social […]
“There’s a certain learned passivity about the spiritual life that is hard to program and hard to make popular. People who give leadership in spiritual direction, the good ones, that’s basically what they’re doing: they’re trying to train us and teach us how not to be in control of our lives; to enter into what […]
“How can we pray accurately for and harmoniously with the other members of God’s people? Through song: song establishes all the members of the congregation in organic relationship. The Christian recovers a sense of community and experiences the dynamics of community not through the categories of sociology but through the music of liturgy. We would […]