Here’s a little line I wrote down and shared this morning in the last of the 7 Letters to the 7 Churches Series: “Write the equation of your life so the addition of Christ is needed to make it balance.” (Currently working on trying to refine my math)
“The overarching concern in the idea of justice is the need to have just relations with others—and even to have appropriate sentiments about others; and what motivates the search is the diagnosis of injustice in ongoing arrangements.” Sen, Amartya. “The Boundaries of Justice: David Hume and our World,” The New Republic, December 14, 2011, Books …
Tamara and I had the opportunity to visit the White House a week ago
I had lunch with Tom Rowley, the US Director for the environmental group A Rocha, yesterday. In follow up, he sent me this paragraph… I love it! You asked me yesterday how to move people toward reframing quality of life from consumption toward shalom. Thinking a bit more about it, I realize I gave only …
One of the things I love about Dietrich Bonhoeffer is the corrective role his words seem to be within the current context of the American Church. In that vein, his writings can truly be called ‘prophetic.’ Bonhoeffer’s small book Life Together is a great example. To a culture consumed with individualism, consumerism, materialism and too …
I’ve been thinking a lot about questions. Questions exist where they are articulated and where they are hidden or obscured. There are questions on the surface that we feel and know. And there are questions below the surface that shape us or nag at us, but that we can’t quite put a finger on or …
I took a break from blogging these last two weeks for the first time in 5 years. I’d realized that blogging had become a guilt endeavor – just get something up – rather than a meaningful representation of my thoughts or what God is teaching me. For quite a while, those around me have been …
Micah and I have been discussing Kierkegaard and Bonhoeffer as we’re half way through an eight hour layover at Heathrow Airport in London. I pulled up Bonhoeffer’s poem, “Who Am I?”, as an example of his existential side. Bonhoeffer and Kierkegaard both shared similar views on the cost of discipleship, or what Bonhoeffer called “Costly …
Saw this quote today from someone and love it!! “Indecision may or may not be my problem.” – Jimmy Buffett
