Many simply want what is fashionable no matter the cost. We would step on the heads of our own grandmothers to live our lives in whichever way we feel entitled, but the narrow way of Jesus calls us to renounce our rights, and give up our lives so that we might find the life that is truly life…Thus the dissonance and the reason for my unbelief.

There is a Garden called our Town.
Where hate and greed are broken down.
Great Good Heart is everywhere;
In the soil, water, air.

Given this dis-satisfaction with reality and the strange connection to the Avatar characters the discussion about what it means to be human will become paramount in the upcoming years, in the secular world and in our churches. We should take not

We’re fighting for an economy of mercy.

Q: Ok, I feel really stupid. Who are they parodying? I watched this, and thought I should know who the parody is about, but I don’t. Please enlighten me so I can feel really stupider. Thanks.
A:Well, some of my good friends and family think they might be parodying me (but more likely just some nameless [...]

Sisters and brothers, rejoice! We live sustained by the presence of the Humble God.
Thanks be to God.
God the Father, source of all life,
Thanks be to God.
God the Son, giver of hope,
Thanks be to God.
God the Spirit, voice of love.
Thanks be to God!

As we lament over the wounds of this land
God weeps with us.
As [...]

The Gospel is an announcement, not a secret, that the way in which the world is currently is not the way in which it is supposed to be, nor the way in which it will always be

Our Dark Mother (“To be at His disposal”)
“Let Him do with me whatever He wants
as He wants for as long as He wants.
If darkness is light to some soul—even
if it be nothing to nobody—I am
perfectly happy—to be God’s
flower of the field.”
You mean it, Mother?
Suffering, surrendered like a
petal dropped and wasted. No matter
how thinly you felt [...]

Then she heard the man ask, “How many stories do we have of Jesus feeding people, compared with all the times he was fed at other people´s tables? Who did he clothe? And how many did he take in off the street―Jesus, who himself ´had no place to lay his head´?” She looked up. Huh. I never thought… wait―how did he know what I…

Progress is a god, it is the god to which human life is expendable. Progress is a god of death. Progress in our world means, more, better, faster, stronger, richer, progress is synonymous with the future, where we are heading, whether we are ready or not, the world continues to move forward [...]

She ran her fingers through his thick hair and scratched the back of his head. He smiled at her. He liked that.
“Good boy,” she cooed, “you´re a good old dog.”
“But unfortunately you have good old dog breath, too.” She wrinkled her nose. “Too many meat by-products.” Then she moved around behind the big dog [...]

this is the story of us. some foolishly sane folks pursuing their dreams of growing food and loving neighbors – on a bus, the waste-not wagon.
some of us walked away from college – degree in hand. studying revolution and God and not having the slightest of what this means, of how this looks [...]

One night I had a wondrous dream.
A set of prints on the sand was seen,
The footprints of my precious Lord,
Yet mine were not along the shore.
But then a stranger print appeared.
I asked the Lord, “What have we here?
This print is large and round and neat,
But Lord it’s just too big for feet.”
“My child,” He said [...]

we talked about solitude
we sang about sharing food
we thought of it night and day

If we think about the will of God in terms of human action or inaction, we also can better understand the problem of evil in specific and a myriad of other theology.

I received this book under the mutual agreement with my friend Matt that, if we promised to buy it for one another, we would finally get around to reading perhaps the most recommended book I have ever come across.

“The kingdom of God has come near to you!” And with a laugh, the fool was gone.

God has a dream for the world