Tag: Politics
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Living With A Tender Heart – Holding The Tension
How then does a tender heart live in the world these days? That’s a question I asked in a post about a month ago. It’s a question I continue to carry and live with. Maybe you also are carrying and living with that question. To ask the question is to stand in and hold the… Read more
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Resurrection: A Life Of Protest – An Easter Sunday Reflection
Alleluia. Christ is risen. The Lord is Risen indeed. Alleluia. Sweet words that roll off the tongue. Familiar words we speak with ease. We say them every year, every Easter. It’s always the same. And I never want it to change. Alleluia. Christ is risen. What does that mean? Is Easter simply the happy ending… Read more
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What’s New About Love? – A Maundy Thursday Reflection
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another” (John 13:34.), Jesus said after washing the feet of his disciples. (John 13:1-17, 31b-35) So, what’s new about love? What makes this commandment, this love, new? Love is not an idea original with or unique to Jesus and he wasn’t the first to command… Read more
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No Kings – A Palm Sunday Reflection
This Saturday, March 28th, is the third No Kings Day protest and Sunday, March 29th, is Palm Sunday, but here’s what I wonder: What if Palm Sunday was the original No Kings protest? What if Jesus, the disciples, and the crowd that follows Jesus are protesting violence, injustice, and imperial power? Instead of protest songs… Read more
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Too Tender For This World
Do you sometimes feel like your heart is just too tender for this world? A few weeks ago I received a text message from someone saying that’s how he felt. I didn’t have to ask what he meant. I know that tenderness. I feel it and experience it almost daily. Tender Places Another war, this… Read more
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Enlarging Our Yes – A Reflection On Protest And Dignity
My Weekly Protest Every Thursday for the last several weeks I’ve joined others at a protest. We meet at the main intersection downtown. There’s usually around thirty-five of us. I suspect each of us has our reasons for being there. I show up to protest for people, the United States, democracy, the Constitution, the rule… Read more
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Off The Page And Onto The Streets – A Reflection On The Beatitudes
Every day I receive emails, texts, and news articles calling me to act, to resist, to protest. Maybe you do too. I wonder if that’s what Jesus was doing when he preached the Sermon on the Mount. What if the Beatitudes, the gospel for this Sunday (Matthew 5:1-12), are his call for us to act,… Read more
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A Better Direction
Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol Commander-at-Large, is no longer the “commander,” is leaving Minneapolis, and is returning to his previous duty station in California. (Source) A number of CBP agents in Minneapolis are also leaving. (Source) The chief federal judge in Minneapolis has ordered the head of ICE to appear and explain why he should… Read more
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Another Morning After
After a federal agent murdered Renee Good I wrote about normalcy as resistance and making a pledge to normalcy. This morning, the morning after federal agents murdered Alex Pretti, I wrote this to myself: Lord,… Lord,… The silence shatters my words. I have no words. I can only remember and say their names. For Renee,… Read more