Psalm 72 says - "Give insight of justice to the king, wisdom to distinguish right from wrong to his son -- that he might judge your people fairly, the poverty-stricken with vision of the just. Let mountains lift up peace for the people and the valleys flower with virtue. May he bring justice to the […]
And he is in the face of your neighbor, in the cries of the poor. In the bellies of hungry children, in the prisoner, the sick, the naked, the lost, the lonely, your enemy. Happy Easter, friends. He is risen. Jesus is on the loose. And you have one job -- go find him. And […]
Jesus said nothing about gay marriage or transgender children or abortion. Nothing. But Jesus had quite a lot to say about mercy. In his Sermon on the Mount - his treatise on the way life is to be lived in the Kingdom of God - Jesus says, right out of the blocks: “Blessed are the […]
As the new administration prepares to take power I wonder who you are watching out for. Have you thought about that? As I write these questions I think of what is often called "the quartet of the vulnerable" in the Bible. This is a phrase used by biblical scholars to describe a category of people […]
Krista Tippet's third On Being Foundations podcast is on the concept of time: different types of time, the true nature of time, the difference between chronos and kairos time. I invite you to take a listen. Today, I want to focus on an idea Tippet mentions from the professor of International Peacebuilding, John Paul Lederach. […]
Are you as exhausted as I am of this particular election season? Weary of hateful words, threats of violence, attack ads, tension in the air? In the midst of a culture that feels about to split apart at the seams, in the midst of apprehension about what is to come, in the midst of a […]
