Following Jesus in rejecting empire
The heat of Cairo in the summer can be unforgiving. When added to the smells in the garbage village, zeal melts into lethargy. I remember climbing the hill inside this garbage-collectors community to the Coptic Christian monastery where we lived with a team of American college students…
At the end of 2013, Pope Francis I released an exhortation he called Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel) decrying free market capitalism which he described as an economy of exclusion and inequality. In doing so he stirred up a wasp’s nest of criticism….
In the 1980s New Zealanders Mick and Ruby Duncan chose to live among the desperately poor in one of Manila’s slum communities. It was not a popular road, or an easy one, but one they chose out of love for God and neighbor….
I read Isaiah chapter 1 the other day and wondered what it might have been like to hear these words spoken about me and those in my religious circles….
The high school where my kids attended is a little on the edge of the norm in Wisconsin. In a state that is over 80 percent white and a city that is more than three quarters white, Madison East High is mostly non-white.