Day: June 21, 2020

Daily Sip: I Want my Black Jesus

3 Comments / Recent Stories, The Magazine / By Charles LaFond

“I want that kind, humble black or perhaps brown man. Where has He been these 2,000 years? If I wipe off the plaster and paint of our statues will he be there underneath?”

Hagar and Ishmael are Cast Out

1 Comment / Speaking to the Soul / By Episcopal Cafe

“But I wonder if Hagar had nightmares. Nightmares of being forced to lie with her master. Nightmares of death by heat exposure and thirst even after finding her new life in Paran. I wonder if Ishmael remembered the little brother he played with, who ended up with all the love of the father who loved Ishmael less. I wonder if the pain, the humiliation, the loss, the separation, the bitterness stayed with them.”

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