Which side wins—Democrat or Republican, East or West, elite or bourgeois or proletariat, Herodian or Zealot—may be considered news within the system, but until someone brings into the system resources from outside it, unless someone kicks a hole in the wall of the system so we aren’t trapped within it, there is no real good [...]
Bills and Normas - Mennonite
h/t Joel Miller
Great use of humor, music and image to tell a bit of the Mennonite story.
Listen to me, all of you in far-off lands! The LORD called me before my birth; from within the womb he called me by name. Isaiah 49:1
I have been meditating on this verse as I prepare to preach Sunday. A recurring theme in the lectionary texts for Sunday is that of being named by God. [...]
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
-Wendell Berry
I am thinking about the powerful influence setting has on character and the way story is framed. In a series [...]
I have been caught up by a wave of technologically mediated community. Not community in the 3-dimensional social matrix sense, but community nevertheless. Several weeks ago Shawn Anthony invited me to be a part of an emerging guild of writers whose blog content would be aggregated at The Daily Scribe. I casually said yes, not really thinking about the way I [...]
What is this place where we are meeting? Only a house, the earth its floor,
walls and a roof sheltering people, windows for light, an open door.
Yet it becomes a body that lives when we are gathered here,
and know our God is near.
Huub Oosterhuis, Zomaar een dak boven wat hoofden, 1968
(from Hymnal: A Worship Book)
Gathering…
in [...]
If you are praised, be silent. If you are scolded, be silent. If you incur losses, be silent. If you receive profit, be silent. If you are satiated, be silent. If you are hungry, also be silent. And do not be afraid that there will be no fruit when all dies down; there will be! Not everything will [...]
Shane Claiborne, of the Simple Way community, was in Baghdad while American forces were carrying out the “shock and awe” attacks during March of 2003. When asked if he was a traitor, he responded with the following:
• “If this bloody, counterfeit liberation is American… I am proud to be Un-American.
• If depleted uranium is American… [...]
I heard a statement recently that is making my reading of Scripture sizzle. From Genesis to Revelation the predominant theme is of God acting within history–using a marginal people, a community of resistance against the backdrop of Empire. Empires promise the good life–and a minority achieve it. But at what cost? For others Empire means [...]
Gracias - Marcos Witt
Please don’t read the last post as a prophetic judgement on passé, apostate forms of church. That is far too critical a view. I am amazed at the manifold (many-sided…diverse) wisdom that is expressed in the Body of Christ.
The views expressed in the last post is merely an expression of my own [...]
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