In yet another sign — for those who have eyes to see — that the world is about to crash down around our ears, daycares are providing surveillance cameras. From their own lips:
It is natural for you to wonder about your child after they have been dropped off at day care. How many times have you wanted to be a […]
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In keeping with some of the Yoder I quoted in the previous post, I’d like to propose that discipleship can be distilled down to a twofold task. (Beware of reductionists!)
The first portion is being the kind of called-out community who embody the kingdom of God, upsetting the status quo, serving the poor and oppressed, running afoul […]
After some good discussion on Cities, Neighborhoods and Fear, I was drawn right into Eula Biss’ wide-ranging reflection on living in a “bad” neighborhood in greater Chicago, called No-Man’s Land. (HT: Revealer) Touching on topics from Little House on the Prairie to gentrification, Biss provides a meditation on fear and American culture that is well […]
Perhaps analogous to Thoreau’s adage that “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation,” is something like “inner city-dwellers live in varying levels of constant fear.”
I say this as someone who recently moved to a pretty rough neighborhood in Winnipeg, where the fearful whispers of people who find out that we live in “that neighborhood” […]
This is a fantastic reflection by a Methodist pastor named Omar. Please go read the whole thing if this quote interests you:
First Born Son: the politics of names
Not too long ago I was given the opportunity to preach in a Baptist church in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Before the service started I was introduced to the senior pastor. […]
Love and fear appear to be the primordial motivators in our lives. No other primary orientation seems to underpin our way of being-in-the-world than these two outlooks.
Love and fear present with a choice, time and time again. Will I act in the situation that I’m in based on love, or on fear? This, it seems to […]
