At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed, pressuring us to cover up more, pushing u...
Surely many courageous Christians spoke out against the savagery of their so-called civilized fellow Christians? And surely many compassionate Christians spoke out for the humanity of the so-called sa...
What today throws at you will force you to become better or bitter for tomorrow; it will push you toward breakdown or breakthrough...
And in 1513, the Spanish government created a kind of Miranda rights–style document that was to be read (in Spanish—incomprehensible to the indigenous peoples!) to those about to be conquered. It was...
People have no idea how strong a pull sex, money, and power have on them until they try to resist their pull.
[Fasting is] a way of making sure we haven't let the rhythms of the everyday put us to sleep, a way to make sure that our habits have not become addictions...
What is the most significant conversation you have every day? People would respond piously, Your conversation with God, of course. No, Lewis would reply. It’s the conversation you have with yourself b...
Being able to know and feel what Karl knows and feels… that no matter what, I am God’s, and God is mine… that we have a connection; we have a relationship. Faith in your life brings God in your life.
But there is a more catholic understanding of the term apostolic: it means missional. The apostles were those called together to learn (as disciples) so they could be sent out on a mission (which is w...
Can you imagine Jesus saying, Believe that I am the only way. Why? Because I said so, that’s why! And if you don’t believe, then you’re going straight to hell! But isn’t that how we present him throug...
When any sector of the church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.
Columbus wrote this of his dehumanized cargo: It is possible, with the name of the Holy Trinity, to sell all the slaves which it is possible to sell….Here there are so many of these slaves…although th...
When would-be reformers arise, they are rejected as heretics, turncoats, troublemakers, disturbers of the peace, traitors, and enemies.
Trying to stop people from learning, sharing, and loving is a losing game because it means working against God and the plotline of God's universe.
Even though Pope Urban VIII reversed the pronouncements of his predecessors by declaring slavery unacceptable in the mid-seventeenth century, the vast majority of Protestant Christians in America cons...
God is not the tribal deity of one group of chosen people. God is not for us and against all others. God is for us and for them, too. God loves everyone everywhere, no exceptions.
We are not scholars researching an ancient Chinese emperor — a matter of objectivity and disinterestedness; we are sons and daughters who want to get to know our father — someone with whom we have an...
He creates a new kind of hero: not warriors, corporate executives, or politicians, but brave and determined activists for preemptive peace, willing to suffer with Him in the prophetic tradition of jus...
The romance of Creator and creation is far more wonderful and profound than anyone can ever capture in words.
Here’s the papal proclamation of 1455 that empowered the Christian kings of Europe to enslave, plunder, and slaughter in the name of discovery: invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Sa...
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