Today’s passage from Hosea:
“Israel, come back to the Lord your God;
your iniquity was the cause of your downfall.
Provide yourself with words
and come back to the Lord.
Say to him, ‘Take all iniquity away
so that we may have happiness again
and offer you our words of praise.
Assyria cannot save us…’”
Labor was sacred to Vincent. He made peasants and coal minors have halos of light all around them as if to say that there are burning bushes all around us.
This is an outstanding article on Kanzo Uchimura, the founder of Mu-kyokai Christian movement in Japan. My grandparents were active leaders of this Bible based movement in Kamakura.
My article in Christianity Today came out. I reflect on what we can learn from Kanzo Uchimura’s idea of “prophetic nationalism.” Loving one’s country does not require uncritical acceptance of it, nor should critique be motivated by hate.
https://t.co/KVVt8XFkNL