william sloane coffin
The Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. died yesterday. Rev. Coffin was university chaplain during my time at Yale, and many years later has won my admiration as a genuine person of faith and a powerful...
View Articletorture is a traditional value?
The Rev. Louis Sheldon, chaiman of the Traditional Values Coalition, said this about Senator John McCain’s challenge to the Bush administration’s position on interrogation rules: This very definitely...
View Articlehow the church gets it backwards
Jesus was always on the move. Foxes have holes, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lie down and rest. Jesus was always on the move, going to the people, seeking out the people....
View Articlenot crusaders for jesus, but followers of jesus
From an editorial by John Buchanan in the February 6, 2007 edition of The Christian Century … I was representing my denomination on a visit to Croatia, not long after the shooting between Croats,...
View Articlespeaking out against torture is not a “left”/”right” thing … it’s a following...
The National Association of Evangelicals has endorsed a declaration confirming their opposition as people of faith, as followers of Jesus, to the use of torture under any circumstances, even in a “war...
View Articlehateful?
From a Christian blog I read: General Peter Pace’s comments calling homosexuals acts as immoral, and Senator Sam Brownback’s comments backing the General up are nothing less than hateful … Grace is...
View Articlebeauty, and life, take time
I really liked today’s entry at inward/outward … so I am taking the liberty of reprinting it here for you! By Macrina Wiederkehr Life unfolds a petal at a time slowly. The beauty of the process is...
View Articletalking is easier than doing
It is easier to write than to do. Easier to complain than to do. Easier to rant and grieve about injustice and unfairness, than to do anything substantial to change the course of injustice and...
View Article“christian hate” should be an oxymoron!
I attach below an excerpt from a forwarded e mail I received the other day … … when I hear a story about a brave marine roughing up an Iraqi terrorist to obtain information, know this: I don’t care....
View Articlegood questions!
At what point do we move past the description of all that we are against and actually take an active stand for something? When do we stop just talking about religion and wishing others would be more...
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