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Holding hope.
Holding hope is a practice we are called to work on every day as followers of Jesus. Right now, we hold hope for the community of Ferguson, Missouri, and for all of us even as we feel the deep pain and suffering of racial inequality. Once again white privilege takes hold of the justice system and the deep gulf between the police and those who are policed is exposed. This gulf has been formed over generations of discrimination and by…
Listen
“It is no surprise that the BIble uses hearing, not seeing, as the predominant image for the way human beings know God. We can’t walk around God and take God in like a cathedral or an artichoke. We can only listen to time for the sound of God – to the good times and bad times of our own lives for the words which out of God’s innermost secrets God is addressing to, of all people, us.” (adapted from…
Toward Sunday
We continue our worship series, The Art & Resurrection of Justice, this week with focus on listening to the voice of the voiceless. Outline for The Art & Resurrection of Justice april 27: human trafficking (John 20.19-31) may 4: food insecurity (Luke 23.13-49) may 11: listening to the voiceless (John 10.1-10) Here is a video featuring Micah Bournes promoting the Justice Conference last February. As Micah Bournes reminds us, “there is no such thing as a voiceless person, only a…
Justice
“If you break a good law, justice must be invoked not only for goodness’ sake but for the good of your own soul. Justice may consist of paying a price for what you’ve done or simply of the painful knowledge that you deserve to pay a price which is payment enough. Without one form of justice or the other, the result is ultimately disorder and grief for you and everybody. Thus justice is itself not unmerciful. Justice also does not…
Art.
An old silent pond. Into the pond a frog jumps. Splash! Silence again. “It is perhaps the best known of all Japanese haiku. No subject could be more humdrum. No language could be more pedestrian. Matsu Basho, the poet, makes no comment on what he or she is describing. He implies no meaning, message, or metaphor. He simply invites our attention to no more and no less than just this: the old pond in its watery stillness, the kerplunk of…
Toward Sunday
While we celebrated the beauty & mystery of Easter on Sunday, the season of Easter will continue for fifty days. We’ll spend the first few weeks of Easter in a worship series called The Art & Resurrection of Justice. Outline for The Art & Resurrection of Justice •april 27: human trafficking (John 20.19-31) •may 4: food insecurity (Luke 24.13-49) •may 11: listening to the voiceless (John 10.1-10) Read John 20.19-31. We will be holding this biblical text in conversation with…
Justice
some words on Justice by Frederick Buechner from Whistling in the Dark. If you break a good law, justice must be involved not only for goodness’ sake but for the good of your own soul. Justice may consist of paying a price for what you’ve done or simply of the painful knowledge that you deserve to pay a price, which is payment enough. Without one form of justice or the other, the result is ultimately disorder and grief for you…
Toward Sunday
We conclude our worship series, Don’t Talk About That at The Table; with reflection this coming week on prisons. Outline January 12: United Methodist Social Principles (Acts 10.34-43) January 19: Race (Matthew 5.38-48) January 26: Immigration (1 Corinthians 1.10-18) February 2: Abortion (Micah 6.1-8) February 9: Gender (Ephesians 5.22-24 & Galatians 3.28) February 16: Sexuality (Romans 1.26-27 & Ruth 1.16-17) February 23: Prisons (Hebrews 13.3) This Sunday will invite deeper reflection on prisons. We welcome Rev. Gary McAnally to the…