I have tasted the tears of poverty, and I have tasted the bile of my stomach. I have tasted the street and her captured folk, I have tasted alienation and disenfranchisement. I have tasted unemployment, and I have tasted an uncompassionate system by the numbers. I have tasted employment and her slavery, I have […]
Broken Grace (Theology meets Culture)
The Scandalous Nature of Mercy
For I desire mercy, not sacrifice. (Hosea 6:6) “Scandalous” by definition is an action that causes public outrage or indignation. Mercy, of the divine kind, causes public outrage. One only has to look to Christ’s message of mercy to see what sort of public outrage divine mercy can cause. We as Christians are […]
Lacking Soul: On Urban Design
Here are men that alter their neighbor’s landmark … shoulder the poor aside, conspire to oppress the friendless … Reap they the field that is none of theirs, strip they the vineyard wrongfully seized from its owner … A cry goes up from the city streets, where wounded men lie groaning … (Job 24). There […]
While God Rested
God saw all that he had created, The Universe, The Earth, And all her inhabitants, And it was very Holy. And God rested From his work, Blessed the day, Called it Holy. While God rested … Man saw all that God had created, The Universe, The Earth, And her her inhabitants,< br /> And called […]
Jesus was a socialist
What most people don’t realize is that… JESUS WAS A SOCIALIST* The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to preach good news to the poor, to proclaim release to the prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, to liberate the oppressed, and to […]
A Throw-A-Way Society
We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving. — J. K. Rowling We American’s are a throw away society. The average American produces a little over 2000 pounds in a year’s time, much of which is recyclable, yet isn’t. Not only do we throw a way trash we […]
The Good Samaritan
The religious of Jesus day, that is, the fundamental Jewish establishment, were so hard headed that Jesus in answering the question, “Who is my neighbor?” had to turn the turn the table in his answer. The story begins with a man, beaten, robbed (even of his clothing) and left for dead while on his way […]