Following Jesus in rejecting empire
On December 28 the Western Church celebrates the feast of the holy innocents (December 29 in the Eastern Church). It is a day to remember the children who were killed by Israel’s King Herod after learning of the birth of a rival king. Herod was so threatened by this news that he ordered the execution…
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[Photo Credit: Calvina Nguyen, @calvina and @yourbrandspark] This is something I wrote years ago after visiting a tee-shirt factory in Kolkata. Women from the largest red-light district in Asia leave their jobs as sex workers to work there. Everyone is paid the same living wage regardless of skill. They are given savings and retirement accounts…
Of all life’s disappointments, disappointment with ourselves can be among the most devastating. Whether body image, stupidity, or just that obnoxious inner critic, we are regularly “cancelling” ourselves because of things we say or do. Disappointment with self is the third and final post in a series that has touched upon disappointment with God and…
I’m exploring disappointment in this short series of posts. Disappointment is a universal experience and becomes fuel for discouragement and depression. In today’s post I’ll look at my disappointment with the Church. That’s a capital C Church, not a local church or a denomination or even the Church in America, though each of those may…