Church people are all good doers. But fund raisers and food drives and home repair projects for the elderly and covered dish dinners can become simply exhausting flurries of activity if they don't begin with the child of God seated before Jesus in prayer.
Read MoreIn the First Amendment, the framers of our constitution set forth: “Congress shall make no laws respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
Read MoreWe draw the lines where we think they should be to make everything orderly ... then Jesus shows up with an eraser.
Read MoreWe’ve lost the ability to live together in all our differences, and we need to be at peace with the fact that being different is not just OK, it’s the way God made us. The gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost can teach us how.
Read MoreThe world often defines 'peace' as simply the absence of conflict. Christ's peace is much more than that. Christ's peace comes before any conflict even begins.
Read MoreThe message, and the good news, of Easter is simply that God will always have the last word. Reason and logic cannot explain it ... it simply is.
Read MoreChrist's peace and Rome's peace engaged each other on Palm Sunday. That engagement continues today as the faithful choose which procession, Christ's or Rome's, they will be part of.
Read MoreIt's OK to be extravagant when the extravagance is about God, even when extravagance is on ourselves.
Read MoreThe more we know about how God has worked with us, the more we want to know about how God has worked with the other ... and the peace of real pluralism might break out.
Read MoreThe Beatitudes describe a blessedness which the world cannot know apart from the Kingdom of God and His Christ, but within that Kingdom it makes perfect sense.
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