An announcement won’t bring closure and relief. The next 2.5 months will rough.
Anxiety heightened, polarization at a fevered pitch...thru the holidays.
Engage your practices of:
emotional resilience
spiritual grounding
differentiation
embodiment
humble curiosity
As long as I keep running about asking: "Do you love me? Do you really love me?" I give all power to the voices of the world and put myself in bondage because the world is filled with "ifs."
Henri Nouwen
Recent stories of people leaving Christian faith remind me that the church fails to host disorientation. Tensions, contradictions, and confusion need not lead to an exit door but into the wrestling ring with God. The dawn emerges after the dark night.
Condemn the crowds that chant but also pay attention to the chants within you.
Today is a fine day to recognize our own implicit bias and push back against our own ignorance.
Dear Evangelicals,
This is racism.
Call it out as racism.
Stop endorsing racism.
Admit your racism.
And do the work of healing today.
People of color are watching.
Jesus included.
“Too often, the wounded boy grows up to become a wounding man, inflicting upon those closest to him the very distress he refuses to acknowledge within himself.”
— Terrence Real
As it is in our current political climate so it is in our current ecclesial climate – one who is narcissistic will always demonize those tasked with holding him accountable. To protect himself he will malign another.
American culture is a particularly fertile soil for narcissistic leaders to emerge given our obsession with persona and gifts over character and being. We need to think of ways to expand and accentuate the importance of the latter.
Privilege will deceive you to believe that things are "not that bad". Humility will invite you to consider the pain of others as legitimate and worthy of your attention.
It's true that there are differences in interpreting various subjects through the lens of the Bible but the notion that the Bible supports the separation of children from their mothers or fathers is so wrong and dangerous. Jesus weeps.
“If you have a direction but no followers, you are a wanderer. If you have followers but no direction, you are a gatherer.” #jonathongorny#ylstudentstaffweekend