Day: November 12, 2011

How Christians might learn from the First Nations people

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In an article that begins by describing how doing something as simple as lighting a smudging pot could risk imprisonment for North American aboriginal people, there’s a discussion about where the present relations between the First Nation people and Christian majority are today. Bishop Marc MacDonald, formerly of the Diocese of Alaska and now of […]

We are the 100%

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We are the 100% —

We are rich and poor.

We are sinful and righteous.

We yearn for justice and we look out for ourselves alone.

We seek to bring in all the brokenness, all the truth, all the anger, all the healing.

Feed my sheep

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When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?’ He said to him, ‘Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Feed my lambs.’ A second time he said to him, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me?’ […]

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