Just like on that first Christmas, babies will be born this Christmas in huts and shacks into families that can barely feed themselves, let alone a newborn. It will happen in Liberia and Nicaragua. It will happen in Williamstown and Marietta. Herod won’t try to kill them, but diseases will. Lack of adequate healthcare will. Hopelessness will.
Social Justice
Something more important…
Sometimes it's important to recognize when someone has something more important to say than what you want to say. I was going to post a new blog today, but after reading this over on the Burnside Writer's Collective, I felt like what Carole Turner had to say was way more important than whatever mindless ramble … Continue reading Something more important…
To Write Love On Her Arms
Today is To Write Love On Her Arms Day. If you're not familiar with TWLOHA, you're missing what is in my opinion one of the most meaningful movements of the church in teen/young adult culture in a generation. The TWLOHA story is the story of how Jesus moves in the world. It is a story … Continue reading To Write Love On Her Arms
Show me da money
It's a trip. It makes the world go 'round. It's what I want. Cash. Bread. Dough. Moola. Dinero. Pastor Steve's recent sermon series on Generosity has got me thinking a lot lately about money. Not in the "love of it is the root of all evil" sort of way, or in the "give it all … Continue reading Show me da money
Time to rethink Christmas!
My home church, FUMC Williamstown, will be participating in Advent Conspiracy for the third year in 2009. Helping people reconnect with the true meaning of Christmas by learning to give more relationally and to help the most marginalized people in the world with the basic necessity for survival--clean water. These are a few of my … Continue reading Time to rethink Christmas!
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