Mud on my Glasses
Sometimes it takes your glasses getting dirty to remember that they’re even there. I learned that I hold a pretty stunted view of hospitality from a woman named Marie Issaka in Bamako, Mali.
The Spiritual Discipline of a Messy House
It’s a season of snow melting and sun shining through windows and spring cleaning. I’m driving home from a chiropractor appointment, singing. It’s afternoon and my husband is home with our youngest as he only teaches part of the day on Mondays and the sky is stretched blue and peaceful above me.
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Our Shared Humanity
Over the March Break, my 15-year-old son Cameron and I spent a good deal of time in downtown Toronto, visiting the Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario. We also ate in various ethnic restaurants that serve up the kind of food we can’t get back in our small town.
Life Classes for Christians
Wouldn’t you like to take Peter Schuurman’s World Religions class? (Read about the class in the article “Hopping the River Bank” from March 25.) I would!
On Kindness
I read a news story recently that’s stuck with me. It was about the experiences of undocumented Hispanic women who had worked at several of Donald Trump’s golf courses.
Unity: The character of Christ
The word of God is clear that we are called to hold love to the highest standard of our character and be united with Christ. Here our individualism, ideas and everything about us come under the leadership of Jesus, who is the head of a united body.
Love is Love
“Love is love” seems like a perfectly circular argument in that it starts with itself and ends with itself and goes nowhere in between
The risk of love in turbulent times
But if church isn’t the place for boundary-breaking, heart-stretching love, what is?
Change and choice
Love requires space. When we set rigid limits, we leave bits out and we fail to see what is happening in front of our eyes.
School bullying: Zero-tolerance to mutual respect
I find it interesting that fostering healthy, rights-respecting relationships emerges as the most effective way to prevent bullying, abuse, sexual exploitation, rape culture and other forms of violence against young persons. Sounds Biblical to me.
This is how a heart breaks
Sometimes your heart can even break for things that happen nowhere near you. For people you’ve never met, in places you’ve never been, in circumstances you’ve only read about.
There’s a lot of that kind of heartbreak, these days.
The merciful are stone-catchers
Mercy prays “kyrie eleison;” Lord, have mercy upon us. Then it practices just mercy.
