“The Spirit presses us to join with people we do not want to join with or imagine intimate life. Yet it is life together in the Spirit of God as the goal that guides that thorny joining of peoples who never imagined themselves together. God surprises, and we have forgotten the surprise that is discipleship and theContinue reading “The Urgency of (De)Othering Mr. Banks”
Monthly Archives: April 2021
What things in your story are waiting to be told and heard?
Near the end of Luke’s gospel, two companions of Jesus ask him, “Are you the only stranger in [town] who does not know the things that have taken place there in these days? Jesus asks, “What things?” Of all the moments in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the one that must surely have caused some considerableContinue reading “What things in your story are waiting to be told and heard?”