we don’t give enough credit to Michael Caine, who in Muppet Christmas Carol gives an Oscar-worthy performance opposite a critter made of felt yelling “light the lamp, not the rat! light the lamp, not the rat!!”
Magnolia keeps asking me random questions when she is supposed to be going to sleep. I told her she needs sleep, and she replied, “I know. It just takes time.”
It is quite the fragile god who needs political power to preserve and enforce their will.
It is quite the powerful God who partners with peasants, is born in poverty, washes feet, heals the sick, advocates for the oppressed, is unjustly killed and still changes the entire world.
And for all the Evangelicals and Charismatics who want to separate character from policy, this is what happens when you separate character from policies.
I don't know the Jesus some have paraded and waved around in the middle of this treachery today. They may be acting in the name of some other Jesus but that's not Jesus of the Gospels.
Out of the chaos and dysfunction of American Christianity, God the Holy Spirit is raising up a "love your enemies, justice-seeking, Pro-All of life, multiethnic missionary community of disciples. Like a rose growing through the concrete. And she will be beautiful.