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December 9, 2011

Bedlam or Bethlehem?

We are like amnesia victims in a shell-shocked world. We have forgotten who we are and where we belong until we get to Bethlehem.

In an article published in 1996, English Theologian, Don Cupitt, said that "Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity." I winced when I read that characterization of Christmas. It hurt because it contains an embarrassing element of truth. Almost all of us participate in the commercialization of Christmas.

January 10, 2011

Who Would She Have Become?

Pundits and politicians alike are counseling restraint in attributing the Tucson shooting to political rhetoric. Those words ring hollow to those of us who have been on the front lines of America's polarized politics.

A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more. – Jeremiah 31:15 (NRSV*)

Few life events are more devastating than a child's death. The pain compounds when such a death results from violence.

August 7, 2010

Then & Now: News Briefs

The leaders of Bread for the World and Heifer International, two prominent food and agriculture aid agencies supported by thousands of churches, are co-recipients of the 2010 World Food Prize.