Social Justice
Homesick, Homeless, and Homeward
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011We just returned from two weeks Florida, the children and I. I had been invited to St. Petersburg, to present a few workshops for Presbyterian pastors involved or interested in New Church Development. Now about the time that I confirmed that agreement, I stumbled upon an email I received seven years ago, when the only [...]
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Where Land and Community and Justice and Promise Meet
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011Question: I was brought up being told that God is everywhere, and all powerful, that those who seek shall find, and that it is quite possible to walk through the valley of the shadow of death, while fearing no evil. But this kind of teaching seems incongruous with the idea of holy places, or places [...]
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To my father, Shalom Proclaimer, on his birthday
Thursday, February 24th, 2011In my dining room hangs a framed and matted lithograph by William Benson, a now-retired art professor at the University of Wisconsin (Eau Claire). It is in grey, cream, and charcoal hues. In large capital letters 5″ tall, a be-shadowed word SHALOM asserts itself on a stripe of black, and nestled between the L and [...]
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