HERE is this weeks e mail newsletter from Sojourners....
verse of the day
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.
- John 15:12-15
voice of the day
"In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period."
- I. Carter Heyward
Another Pro-Life Issue
Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley, the closest American prelate to Pope
Francis, took nine other bishops to the Mexican-American border for
three days of listening to the stories of people who are suffering
from America’s horribly broken immigration system. The bishops
celebrated a dramatic mass with hundreds of Mexicans, taking
communion through slats in the security fence, and laid a wreath at the
border commemorating the estimated 6000 people who have died trying
to cross.
“We can no longer tolerate the suffering caused by a broken system,” the Cardinal said. “The suffering and death must end.”
When asked how important immigration reform now is to the Catholic Church, O’Malley replied, “It’s another pro-life issue.”
Indeed it is.
Immigration reform is not just an economic issue — although it plays a big role in attracting and retaining talented people who will contribute to our economy. Common-sense immigration reform — as the Cardinal affirmed — is part of a consistent ethic in which all of life is treated as sacred. This includes issues such as abortion, but extends to anything that promotes human flourishing and protects human rights. A consistent life ethic keeps families intact and protects the voiceless. ...
READ THE FULL COLUMN HERE.
Jim Wallis is president of Sojourners. His book, On God's Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned About Serving the Common Good, is now available. Watch the Story of the Common Good HERE. Follow Jim on Twitter @JimWallis.
ON THE GOD'S POLITICS BLOG
View the latest articles from the God's Politics blog »
Remembering That Out of Death Comes Life
by Nikole Lim
Editor's note: The "On Pilgrimage" series features the stories that impacted artist Nikole Limme the most during a pilgrimage to Uganda and Rwanda. The juxtaposition of these stories, themes, and values are conveyed both in narrative and visual storytelling, with each series released weekly starting April 7, 2014, the day the genocide began 20 years ago.
Christianity's Most Common and Subtle Sin
by Stephen Mattson
Christianity's most common and subtle sin is … rationalization. Essentially
by Brandan Robertson
News broke recently that Christian relief organization World Vision lost more than 10,000 child sponsorships from people who disagreed with the organization's policy change on hiring people in legal same-sex marriages. To many who watched this controversy unfold, this is an utter travesty. It seems simply unfathomable that anyone who claims to follow Christ could justify removing support from the impoverished children that they know by name because they disagreed with the organization's hiring policy. I am trying my best to be a committed follower of Jesus, and I have been handed a picture of God that I'm discovering is radically inconsistent with the scriptural, historical, orthodox image of God revealed in Jesus Christ. The same could be said, I am confident, of most millennial evangelicals who are, in fact moving away from the version of faith that they inherited in their youth. The Tribes of Rob Bell, Mark Driscoll, John Piper ... and Jesus
by Stephen Mattson
Christianity consists of thousands of tribes, cliques, and communities — each with different theologies, traditions, and doctrinal beliefs. Within a Westernized society obsessed with celebrity, entertainment, popularity, conflict, and money, it can be easy for Christian groups and communities to clash with each other. For the modern church, much of its recent legacy has involved conflict, division, and controversy. Christians have developed a love-hate relationship with theologians, pastors, and church leaders — and it's dividing the church. Many Christians see their faith journeys as a series of either/or situations and decisions — this is bad. Because as much as we want things to be clear, concise, and black-and-white, reality is complex and messy.
verse of the day This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.
- John 15:12-15
voice of the day "In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period."
- I. Carter Heyward
Another Pro-Life Issue
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“We can no longer tolerate the suffering caused by a broken system,” the Cardinal said. “The suffering and death must end.”
When asked how important immigration reform now is to the Catholic Church, O’Malley replied, “It’s another pro-life issue.”
Indeed it is.
Immigration reform is not just an economic issue — although it plays a big role in attracting and retaining talented people who will contribute to our economy. Common-sense immigration reform — as the Cardinal affirmed — is part of a consistent ethic in which all of life is treated as sacred. This includes issues such as abortion, but extends to anything that promotes human flourishing and protects human rights. A consistent life ethic keeps families intact and protects the voiceless. ...
READ THE FULL COLUMN HERE.
Jim Wallis is president of Sojourners. His book, On God's Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned About Serving the Common Good, is now available. Watch the Story of the Common Good HERE. Follow Jim on Twitter @JimWallis.
ON THE GOD'S POLITICS BLOGView the latest articles from the God's Politics blog »
Remembering That Out of Death Comes Life
by Nikole Lim
Editor's note: The "On Pilgrimage" series features the stories that impacted artist Nikole Limme the most during a pilgrimage to Uganda and Rwanda. The juxtaposition of these stories, themes, and values are conveyed both in narrative and visual storytelling, with each series released weekly starting April 7, 2014, the day the genocide began 20 years ago.
Christianity's Most Common and Subtle Sin
by Stephen Mattson
Christianity's most common and subtle sin is … rationalization. Essentially
by Brandan Robertson
News broke recently that Christian relief organization World Vision lost more than 10,000 child sponsorships from people who disagreed with the organization's policy change on hiring people in legal same-sex marriages. To many who watched this controversy unfold, this is an utter travesty. It seems simply unfathomable that anyone who claims to follow Christ could justify removing support from the impoverished children that they know by name because they disagreed with the organization's hiring policy. I am trying my best to be a committed follower of Jesus, and I have been handed a picture of God that I'm discovering is radically inconsistent with the scriptural, historical, orthodox image of God revealed in Jesus Christ. The same could be said, I am confident, of most millennial evangelicals who are, in fact moving away from the version of faith that they inherited in their youth. The Tribes of Rob Bell, Mark Driscoll, John Piper ... and Jesus
by Stephen Mattson
Christianity consists of thousands of tribes, cliques, and communities — each with different theologies, traditions, and doctrinal beliefs. Within a Westernized society obsessed with celebrity, entertainment, popularity, conflict, and money, it can be easy for Christian groups and communities to clash with each other. For the modern church, much of its recent legacy has involved conflict, division, and controversy. Christians have developed a love-hate relationship with theologians, pastors, and church leaders — and it's dividing the church. Many Christians see their faith journeys as a series of either/or situations and decisions — this is bad. Because as much as we want things to be clear, concise, and black-and-white, reality is complex and messy.
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