Something I’m chewing on for Sunday

These quotes come from Brennan Manning great book Abba’s Child:
 
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
- E. E. Cummings
 
In human form Jesus revealed to us [...]

Four Levels of Charity

Please read the essay and tell me what you think.
Below is the essay from a great little book called:
Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life: Rethinking Ministry to the Poor.
Find more Great Stuff from Robert Lupton here.
Clothes Closets and Compassion
March 2007
While volunteering on a remodeling project in our inner-city church, I came across a yellowed [...]

Is something wrong?

In the preface of the book Hauerwas and Willimon lay out the trajectory of their excellent book, Resident Aliens:
We believe that the designations of the church as a colony and Christians as resident aliens are not too strong for the modern American church - indeed, we believe it is the nature of the church, at [...]

When I go to Prison…

Will Samson asked in his blog today what are the Five Books You Would Take To Prison? The questions come from the recent banning of books in prisons. So here are my thoughts:
1. The Bible (Because everyone is doing it!)
2. The Powers that Be by Walter Wink
3. The Prophetic Imagination by [...]

Embrace Darfur

I have been working at Embrace Richmond as the Director of Community Development and today our community part just got a little bit bigger.
As of today we are partnering with the Virginia Council of Churches and their Refugee Resettlement Program. Essentially, we will be helping with the families who having been living as [...]

golfing with one club in the bag…

When I was in elementary school my dad used to to take me to play golf at a run down little par 3 and short par 4 course. I would grab my golf bag and throw it in the trunk of the car. The yard sale golf bag held my three clubs: [...]

Poverty + Ignorance = Terrorism?

Today I read a post on CNN (Poverty fueling terror) about Desmond Tutu who is the South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa. He was being quoted as saying:
You can never win a war against terror as long as there are conditions in the world that make people desperate — poverty, [...]

Aren’t they beautiful…

Why “Hope like mad”

On my first post I thought I should at least say where I got the title for my blog. It is a quote from Jack Caputo from his book On Religion. He wrestles with the question from Augustine “What do I love when I love my God?”
I love this question in no small [...]