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Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God.
It is believing that love without reward is valuable.
~ Emmanuel Levinas Read more [...]
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Faith is living in uncertainty without despairing.
~ John S. Dunne Read more [...]
A Word to the Wise — Extravagant
Extravagant [ik-strav-uh-guh nt]
After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions Read more [...]
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Read more [...]
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Prophets from Amos and Isaiah to Gandhi and King have shown how frequently compassion demands confrontation. Love without criticism is a kind of betrayal. Lying is done with silence as well as words.
William Sloane Coffin Read more [...]
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What we would like to do is change the world--make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended them to do. And, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights Read more [...]
Advent Prayer IV
Advent Blessings to you. Click here for a prayer for the fourth week of Advent. Read more [...]
Advent: Silence, Simplicity, & Spaciousness
Advent is a season of simplicity and spaciousness. The biblical narratives of this season involve simple people doing simple things. And yet, it is in the simplicity that room is made for that which is extraordinary. Simplicity, as Thoreau knew so Read more [...]
Sister Mahala on the Biggest Dark & the Littlest Light
"And you, Sister Mahala,
where do you find hope?"
asked the young woman.
"I find hope in knowing that
I have never met a dark
that couldn't hold a light.
And I have never met
even the littlest light
that wasn't stronger
than the biggest dark."
~ Read more [...]
Advent: Remembering The Victims from Sandy Hook
The piece "The Carol of the Season: I Am with You," first appeared on The Almond Tree, December 15, 2012. Today is the 4th anniversary of that terrible day in Newtown, CT when so many people's lives were scarred by heartless Read more [...]