When Bishop Budde urged our President to extend mercy to those who may have broken immigration laws, she was standing in a long line of Christian preachers speaking truth to power.
We need people of passion and principle, who refuse to accept the bitter authoritarian politics of grievance — and work to unify the nation, not divide it.
The Blessing is not “out there” somewhere, waiting to be sought and won, as the knights of Camelot sought the Holy Grail. The Blessing is already right here, within us. We already have it. We’ve only but to claim it!
Did you ever notice that, when you light someone else’s candle, your own light is not diminished? The most important things in life — faith, hope and love — are like that.
There was a time when God in Christ was in the world, but the only one who’d ever met him was this young girl, wise beyond her years, who rested her fingers on the curve of her gently swelling belly and felt him kick.
It’s only in the act of giving to each other, of sacrificing for each other, that any of us discover true joy.
Lots of us, at Christmas, are frantically seeking happiness, but happiness is not ultimately the point. It’s joy we’re really after.
When temples tumble, let us remind ourselves that no matter how troubled or chaotic life may become, there is one who has known — in his life — an even fuller measure of pain and heartache. That one is God’s own son, Jesus our Lord.
The pursuit of divine justice is a waiting game: always has been, always will be. That’s because it only comes according to God’s time, which is fundamentally different from our own.
Following Jesus Christ requires something of us, something beyond simply gazing up at the stars and saying, “Wow!” It requires hard work, study, discipline.
