The Power of Words

Lesson 8: Words or Guns

Lesson 8: Words or Guns

Ever since I suggested last week that the most important contribution Christians make to overcoming the deep divisions in our society is compassionate love, significant events seemed to affirm or challenge my assertion. The very next day an editorial was published in our local newspaper that demonstrated how severely alienated we have become. The writer […]

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Lesson 4: The Loss of Community and Tradition

Lesson 4: The Loss of Community and Tradition

The online comments have represented the two primary responses I have been getting to the first chapters in the book. The first, voiced by Lupe, Paul, and Don, rather powerfully express how people have used God’s Word to oppress and massacre. The second, posted by Derek, readily agrees we are seeing the loss of caring […]

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Hermano- The Most Dangerous Word: Proper 12B

Hermano- The Most Dangerous Word: Proper 12B

Behave as if you believe. Part of me wants this very much, because it is the way to the fullness of God. But another part resists. “Behave as if you believe” are very dangerous words. They remind me Tennessee Williams’ wonderful play, “Camino Real” where Gutman, a portly man in a white suit, panics when […]

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