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Witness to Suffering

We romanticize suffering because we know the weight of looking at it honestly will crush us. It’s why we have best-selling books about the London Blitz whilst barely taking in the sight of the dusty 3-year-old Syrian toddler covered in blood and dust. Eyes close to reality, lids pulled down by the gravity of the…

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It’s OK To Be You

In a rare show of super-vulnerablity, I’m posting the following on my personal Facebook page because I think it’s important. So if I’m posting it there, I might as well post it here. šŸ™‚   There are many different ways of being human. It’s just plain arrogance that causes some christians to decide what ways…

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Convergence-Emergence: Same Shit, Different Decade

[blockquote type=”center”] ā€œReconciliation can be understood as exchanging places with ā€˜the other,ā€™ overcoming alienation through identification, solidarity, restoring relationships, positive change, new frameworks, and a rich togetherness that is both spiritual and political.ā€ Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian QuietismĀ (p12) [/blockquote] It’s been 14 years since A New Kind of Christian. 10 years since…

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Day 28 – Tribes and Sides

Is the road to hell paved with a vivid imagination? Ā Iā€™m sitting here watching my kids dressed up in Halloween costumes, at our secular homeschool co-op, blending in with the other costumed kids.Ā  My oldest is reading Harry Potter next to me and Iā€™m wondering if this was the slippery roadĀ to hell everyone said it…

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Day 22 – Dancing On Fear

Ā Bumped from the archives to continue the theme of fear – and wow. We’re coming up on the 25th anniversary this year. Ā  Ā  “The wall was an edifice of fear…For 28 years, East Germans could not even approach it. On Nov. 9, 1989, people danced on it ā€” and the world looked different afterward”Ā ā€”…

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On Being A Witness

ā€œTo be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery.Ā  It means to live in such a way that oneā€™s life would not make sense if God did not exist.ā€- Cardinal Suhard Iā€™m in the middle of reading a book called The…

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Silence Between Mountains

Time just hangs without any markers to define it. Day after day after day. For 6 long days. Moses on the mountain, Peter on the trail. They are both preparing for ā€˜the wider truths, the shadow side, the strange worlds beyond timeā€™*, unaware of the how and when. Exodus 24 and Matthew 17 merge into…

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A Three-Faced Liar

This is the human part of the story. There is nothing divine in being betrayed by a friend, denied by your pupil, or deserted by your companions. Jesus now knows the exposed, intimate hurt betrayal brings. All of a sudden everyone knows his friendship with Judas isnā€™t what they thought. There is a force as…

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The Beauty In the Betrayal

“in beauty there echoes a spark of our source” ā€“ Sleeping At Last, “Bad Blood” Samuel prepared a table for David, afraid. A table of anointing in the presence of jealousy and danger becomes well-worn poetry. “Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.” The bread has been baked, the grapes…

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