The cartoon “Non – Sequitur” once ran a series of cartoons illustrating why husbands and wives struggle to communicate. Here’s the first one: A husband is walking past his wife who lies in bed sick. An explanatory balloon above them has these words: What she heard…. The husband says, “You don’t expect me to take [...]
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Sermon On the Mount in (about) 220 Words
In The Secret Message of Jesus Brian McLaren offers a 200 word summary of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. It is a moving, poetic, and helpful summary. Some things, however, are overlooked. Below is my attempt to do something similar, but to include what seems missing in McLaren’s summary. In about 220 words I’ve summarized the Sermon on the Mount. It [...]
Prayer for the Social Order
I prayed through the words of this marvelous prayer in The Book of Common Prayer this morning: Grant, O God, that your holy and life-giving Spirit may so move every human heart [and especially the hearts of the people of this land], that barriers which divide may crumble, suspicions disappear, and hatreds cease; that our [...]
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