For chapel this month, we were asked to bring songs that meant a lot to us or featured in our journey somehow. I chose “The Summons,” an old Scottish hymn, written by … I hadn’t heard of this song until about four or five years ago, when my buddy James came into the room gushing …
Is this not the fast I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see them naked, to …
Desmond Tutu on ubuntu: It is the essence of being human. It speaks of the fact that my humanity is caught up in and inextricably bound up in yours. I am human because I belong. It speaks about wholeness; it speaks about compassion. A person with ubuntu is welcoming, hospitable, warm and generous, willing to …
This past weekend, my brother Gabe delivered the message at his church in Huntington Beach. It was on how God speaks through his people. In addition to getting a mention (for which I was honored and humbled), I was really challenged by it, and I’d encourage you to go listen to it, too. It’s just …
H/T to Ryan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHI9BTpGkp8&hl=en&fs=1& It’s coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It’s coming from the feel that this ain’t exactly real, or it’s real, but it ain’t exactly there. From the wars against disorder, from the sirens night and day, from the fires of the homeless, from the …