“If you’re not welcomed, not listened to, quietly withdraw. Don’t make a scene. Shrug your shoulders and be on your way.” (Mark 6:11, The Message) Is there a way that this could also be applied to our social media interactions?
Tag: social justice
Daily office commentary, Acts 10:27-29: scandalous inclusion across racial categories
“My hunch is that when Peter was invited to visit Cornelius, he may have had a strong initial repulsion to the idea, his subconscious brain saying ‘Gentile out-group = bad!’ But to his credit, the account said that he responded to this by remembering ‘God has just shown me that no race is better than any other.'”
Daily office commentary, Luke 23:50-54; Joseph of Arimathea as a dissenter
“In this story Joseph of Arimathea uses his position of privilege and authority to follow his conscience and side with the marginalized, showing compassion and solidarity with those his friends considered to be a threat to their privileged place of power.” #dailyoffice
Individual conscience vs. institutional authority: an excerpt from an essay by Margaret Renkl
I had a question. If God is all-merciful, how can there be possibly a hell? I could not imagine a sin so egregious that it
Commentary on Luke 22:24-29: “I’ve taken my place among you as the one who serves.”
24-26 Within minutes they were bickering over who of them would end up the greatest. But Jesus intervened: “Kings like to throw their weight around and
“We’re going to start a church in Mérida” [from Episcopal Café]
RE-BLOGGED FROM ORIGINAL POST AT EPISCOPALCAFE.COM ON JUNE 23, 2019. The Diario de Yucatán newspaper from Mérida, México recently reported: “Last week the [Roman Catholic] Archbishop of Yucatán,
Hazelnut Notes 