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Telling the Truth
I want to talk about telling the truth. About the nagging feeling of really needing to speak what’s on your mind, or tell somebody off. I want to talk about whether truth is always a good idea. truth/beauty/love I take the idea that God is love very seriously. I have this idea that we have God-sensors — [...]
Judgment and Discernment
Jesus advises us to avoid judging. Signing on to the judging way of life is not going to go in your favor, he tells us. In the opening to Matthew 7, The Message translates it like this: Don’t pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults— unless, of course, you want the same treatment. [...]
Person Centered Loving
There are certain ways of seeing the world that I just find juicy, delightful, delicious [...] this is about the power of love [...] The thing is, I'm convinced it's actually possible to love my neighbor, love my "enemies". I actually believe it's not just possible, but one of my favorite things, to love every person I have the opportunity to know. What do you think?
Pine Hills in Springtime
As we got close and approached them, one of the kids said to us, "Don't worry. We ain't goin' rob you."
Loving Columbus
I'm all choked up. Amazed, delighted, humbled, joyful... All tears & giggles... People ask me if we've "started anything" in Columbus yet, and sometimes I get the sense they might feel let-down by my answer. And then...
radical love, Pine Hills style
"A big part of this," Tracy tells me, "is about not insulating ourselves from our actual world." It's about opening our eyes and hearts to what is immediately around us."
C.S. Lewis on Love
I got this beautiful quote from Jessica Roye's blog. I don't want to comment; it speaks for itself. (The structure is mine. I hope Lewis wouldn't mind.)... "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung..."
changes under the bridge
Things have been very different since we lost our friend James last month. The atmosphere has been dark. Several people who lived near the park have left, and the ones who remain are quieter, and more scattered. Also, the rain is here, and that means we move back to the area that’s covered by the overpass, [...]
insomnia
James Pelfrey was among the first men I got to know in this “park” ministry, and over the past seven months I spent a fair amount of time with him. Yesterday, James died, in the very park where we met. So, now I’m remembering James losing sleep over another man’s death. Last may, a homeless man [...]
what the hell is “scripture”?
I don’t have any business talking about it, because I don’t know Greek and Hebrew and Aramaic. But it’s pretty clear to me that old-skool Christianity has bogged us down with some heavy burdens, in the form of words that only apply to The Church. I talked about this before in a post called repent or [...]