Update: Several religious leaders, including General Secretary of the Board of Church & Society, Jim Winkler, were arrested today for praying and protesting the budget proposals in the Capital rotunda. As a Bread for the World member, I was asked to participate in emailing Senators Durbin and Kirk as we continue to seek to follow …
Category: Justice
Mighty Waters
Greetings from warm and sunny Pasadena, California! I am here for a conference called Mighty Waters: Preaching and Living God’s Passion for Justice. If you know me at all, you can probably already tell why I was drawn to this gathering. I’m all about striving to understand ourselves as called to live in – to …
“You can cha-ange the world…”
Saturday, May 14 is the United Methodist Church’s second annual Change the World Day, how will you participate? Not every detail is chiseled in stone yet, but here’s how the church at which I serve, Woodridge UMC, will join the effort and be counted: Free T-shirts! Yep, that’s right, all Change the World participants will …
Glimmer of hope?
Did you know Bishop Jung commended my church this week? I encourage you to read the full statement, but here’s the money quote: As United Methodists, we express that our God calls us to work together with all people to overcome injustice. In our Book of Resolutions, we affirm that our Muslim neighbors are our …
IL gets it right
[Pretty much every week, I write a...something...for my church's weekly eNewsletter. Way back when, it was my take on a pastoral letter. Then some time along the way, I started thinking of it more like a newspaper's opinion column. Now I suppose I think of it as a blog post. Whatever I write for eNews usually ends …
Well said!
Welcome to my version of that blog post staple, the weekly recap/links roundup/info dump. My intent is to highlight stuff I came across this week (or, you know, at least fairly recently) that I found well-written or inspiring or bizarre or...well, or perhaps stuff so good I wish I’d written it myself. I suspect blogging …
In support of workers’ rights
Pretty much every week, I write a...something...for my church's weekly eNewsletter. Way back when, it was my take on a pastoral letter. Then some time along the way, I started thinking of it more like a newspaper's opinion column. Now I suppose I think of it as a blog post. ('Cause I'm all super fly …
That’s Some Salty Language!
That's the title. And that's about as far as I've gotten on my sermon for Sunday. Well, ok, that's not entirely true. I've read the texts for this week: Isaiah 58:1-12 and Matthew 5:13-20. Isaiah and Jesus offer startling definitions of righteousness - of how God wants people to live. And I've read some commentary on those …
All That I Can't Leave Unsaid 