Category: Family
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In the Spirit of Resurrection
When I sat today to write, I realized that the last time I posted to this blog was on Good Friday, almost five months ago. It was March 29, just four days after the death of our oldest son, John. I had posted several Lenten reflections in previous weeks, but I realize now that they…
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It’s a Sin to Build a Nuclear Weapon
I pulled out this old “historic” poster and put it up on our refrigerator today, after the false alarm went out to Hawaiians that an incoming (presumably nuclear) missile was on its way. My grown children will recognize the poster, because it was on our refrigerator for years. I began my career as an activist…
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Why I Don’t Make New Year’s Resolutions
A glorious day- sunny, cold, beautiful. Guari and I are here enjoying the fire, enjoying this first day of the New Year. I’m grateful that I didn’t wake up with a hangover—from alcohol, excess food, or emotional or relationship distress. I am at peace. It is well with my soul. It hasn’t always been like…
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Do We Have the Wisdom to Survive?
Fires are burning week after week again this year here in the West. The smoky skies aggravate asthma, give people headaches, burn people’s eyes, and make people grouchy. We are warned to stay indoors due to unsafe levels of particulates. As climate change continues to accelerate, other people in other places are also…
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An Engineered Future?
When I look deeply into the eyes of my grandchildren, sometimes I say, “When I look into your eyes I can see God.” For me, each precious child is an expression of the divine, an embodiment of Love. I also know that Spirit is not only manifest through human beings. The earth and the universe…
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Seasonal Antidotes to Consumer Culture
On Sunday the children of our church performed a Christmas pageant, complete with Mary, Joseph, angels, shepherds, wise ones, sheep, and a talking donkey. The children sang Christmas carols and at times the congregation sang along. As I mentioned in my last blog post, The Revolutionary Stories of Baby Jesus, the biblical stories of Jesus’…
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The Revolutionary Stories of Baby Jesus
This page includes an Excerpt from Chapter 15, “The Triumph of God Over the Powers” in Shaking the Gates of Hell: Faith-Led Resistance to Corporate Globalization by Sharon Delgado. During Advent and Christmas, Christians around the world celebrate the stories surrounding Jesus’ birth in pageants and liturgies. Literalists insist that these stories must be taken as…
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Gratitude and Cultural Resistance
Jesus said, “You cannot serve both God and Mammon,” because if you do, your motives and loyalties will be divided. You will be torn between 1) following the divine will and 2) acquiring money, wealth, worldly possessions, “stuff.” I write in detail about “Market Fundamentalism: The Religion of Mammon” in my book, Shaking the Gates of…