Fifty-five years ago, I spent a memorable week on the tiny island of Iona off the west coast of Scotland, the site to which St. Columba came from Ireland in A.D. 563, to inaugurate the Christian mission to northern Britain.
The portrayal of Jesus as a white, European man has come under renewed scrutiny during this period of introspection over the legacy of racism in society.
Trump is the sociopathic bully who having been bullied in childhood by a sociopathic father now bullies his way across America, taking his cues from “strongmen” like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and Hitler who bullied his way across the Rhineland and Europe.
A Christian looks at Donald Trump.
The craft of creativity is far more formidable than comprehensible. We become infinitely more dependent upon what we do not know than upon what we know.
I’m rocked into fields
of a lyrical witness, history rolls over
glittering in sunlight
We are in a deep spiritual crisis that can’t be relieved by politics, or philosophy.
3 a.m: Startled again in the mirror by my huge head.
North Carolina Pastor Kim Wells charges her congregation to take action against the government’s abuse of children on the border.
What great assemblies must come to order
before summer can begin?
Let all the Good Samaritans of the earth come forth in such numbers as to overwhelm the wickedness of the Trump administration with a love of God and neighbor so great that all manner of goodness shall prevail.
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