Descent into JFK
Living Faith in the Light of Racism
American racism is still with us—in our minds, hearts, and souls. In every sphere, in every place, in every corner of every role that constitutes who I am, the tentacles of race and racism infiltrates. I am focusing specifically on racism because of a particular class discussion that chipped away at the edges of my soul. But make no mistake; it is certainly not the only “ism” grinding at the edges of our souls. If there is any area in my life where I struggle most to have faith or to live out my faith, it is in the area of racial healing.
My soul feels at times to be a sculpture of sorts. And there have been times when my soul has painfully cracked.
Faitfhful Risk for Living Faith
I rarely speak of faith as a noun, but rather of faithing and faithful living. Every day we’re invited on a risky adventure of living into our promises and aspirations, of growing spiritually, and of contributing to the blessings of this world. If we’re not risking, we’re probably not faithing, but play-it-safe-ing.
Yet because so many of us have been taught that faith is either a virtue (you have it or you don’t) or a place (Greetings from Faith!), we have to unlearn the play-it-safe-ing that often accompanies the virtue and place ideas of what living faithfully is. We have to develop new spiritual habits, spiritual habits that have very real world consequences and actions attached to them.
Nothing Short of Evangelism
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In 1990, a hundred and thirty American and Canadian Unitarian Universalist congregations formed one-to-one covenantal relationships with the same number of Transylvanian Unitarian churches. Later this Partner Church Program widened to involve close to four hundred churches on both sides of the Atlantic. Read more →
Feeding Faith
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Some of my most intense experiences of faith have come at the small window that overlooks a field and a ridge, which I’ve dubbed Freedom Ridge. It is at this prison cell window that I have come face-to-face and, quite literally, nose-to-nose with spiritual teachers that have given me glimpses no human teacher could.
The Marker’s Meaning
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Some years back I read a story in the Indianapolis Star. It was a Sunday paper kind of an article about finding happiness. “The truth is,” says the column, “the real secret to happiness isn’t a secret at all. It’s just not that pleasant a truth. Nor does it rhyme. Which is why it is never cross-stitched, hung over the fireplace or emblazoned on tote bags. The secret to happiness is realizing that life is often hard.”
We Are All About Saving Souls
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What are we doing here? What is our business? The answer is simple: we are in the business of saving souls. You heard me right: what we are about is saving souls. Read more →
From Your Minister
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“I often think of humankind as a long procession whose beginning and end are out of sight. We, the living, are an evolutionary link between all life that has gone before and all that is yet to be. We have no control over when or where we enter the procession, or even how long we’re part of it, but we do get to choose our marching companions. And we can all exercise some control over what direction the procession takes, what part we play and how we play it.” —Marty Wilson
REsources for Living
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What do you most wish that you could get for your birthday? An iPad? A horse? A motorcycle? World peace? A group of people got together and imagined what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have most liked for his birthday, January 15th. Read more →
The old man
