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Day 16 – World Food Day

    The needs of the world are too great, the suffering and pain too extensive, the lures of the world too seductive for us to begin to change the world, unless we are changed, unless conversion of life and morals becomes our pattern.” – William Willimon   “{Cooking} connects us to nature: you’re working…

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Day 6 – #Ferguson

This is an excerpt from Issue 1 of Walking Brave.   #Ferguson has made it hard, if not impossible, for people to say ‘I didn’t know’.  Maybe before, white people hadn’t really paid attention to ‘systemic racism’. Maybe you know people who actually describe it as – raise those fingers – “systemic racism” – because they…

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When I say ‘Most White Christians’…

  The tendancy is to group people together.  To use a broad brush.  The tendancy is for most white Christians to brush things under the rug. When I say ‘most white Christians’, I mean everyone I know in person, except for a handful. When I say most white Christians, I mean how my FB feed is filled,…

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Carpe the Hell Out of Your Diem

  I was really depressed Saturday night.  I talked to myself like you shouldn’t talk to people. This is a battle, a war. And the casualties could be your hearts and souls. And then I had a glass of wine, and I got pissed.  I got a baseball bat and I broke some wine glasses…

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The Art of Being A Passive Neighbor

I live where I do in large part because of people like downwardly mobile D.L., and Grace, Christena, and Suzannah, and because of their slow and steady dripping words about race and privilege.  I live in a poorer sort of neighborhood on the blacker side of town.  And before we moved, I had read books on ‘missional living’, being rooted…

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On Being A Witness

“To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery.  It means to live in such a way that one’s life would not make sense if God did not exist.”- Cardinal Suhard I’m in the middle of reading a book called The…

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Am I My Brother’s Keeper?

  “Prosperity breeds amnesia.” You don’t need enough money to be ‘rich’ in order to be prosperous – just enough to pay the bills and then some.  Just enough to insulate you from the reality of life for the most. ‘Having enough’ as we think of it means you can pay to cover the miles…

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If I Don’t See You As My Equal

(This is the third installment of a roving monthly synchroblog called “The Spirit of the Poor” that explore the intersections of economic justice, lifestyle change and spiritual wholeness.  Check out all the posts from last month here. This month we’re talking about Affirming the Humanity.  We’d love for you to join the conversation.  The link-up will be open…

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