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Matt Hisrich: Playing with fire

... we as Christians have failed to the extent that we offer up false smiles and stale certainties in the face real and genuine pain and ambiguity. We fail others and we fail ourselves, and he calls us to burn down what is not working. 

N Jeanne Burns: Dear Straight Friend

I understand that your energy is very low. That you are doing a lot of work on many different things that you care about, and you don’t have time or energy to talk with people about the commitment you made several months ago. My energy is low too. My soul hurts. 

George Amoss Jr: Judged by Jesus

They had not helped the oppressed because they’d believed that Christ was present in others, that “there is that of God in everyone”; clearly, they hadn’t known that at the time. They must have acted because their hearts were open to the other: when they encountered a desperate person, they felt the plight of that person and, like the “good Samaritan,” responded generously despite the cost to themselves Quaker

 

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