We’re having a blast in Memphis with the Holt Srs, which means we weren’t in town on Sunday to receive the Sunday Boston Globe. This Sunday’s Globe was especially significant because it began a seven-part multimedia series about the Quincy Street Missional Church of Dorchester. Our great friends, Aaron & Amy Graham, were instrumental in [...]
Archive for the ‘justice’ Category
17 Oct
Rule of St. Fiacre
I haven’t been much into blogs, books, or conversations about missions lately, but this blog post I could almost endorse. It’s a proposed rule for a proposed missional order — proposed by David Fitch as a response to the number of faith communities that have folded because of burnout and internal character weaknesses. I really, [...]
15 Jul
social gospel
I am an adherent of the social gospel. God is at work in the world transforming not only the souls of individual human beings, but re-building communities of people by reconciling the broken social bonds that have created injustices and inequalities. One need only look at the life of Christ to know this is true. [...]
9 Jul
weekend roundup
Had a good weekend. Busy, but good. Dad beat me to the post, but we saw SiCKO, Michael Moore’s documentary on the ills of the American healthcare system, on Friday night. To be honest, I was floored. It wasn’t typical inflammatory Michael Moore … he simply let the stories of those affected negatively by healthcare [...]
6 Jul
true religion
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. – James 1:27 This story is so, so sad.
29 Mar
simplicity
This is from Jared Looney‘s periodic prayer update for God’s work in the Bronx. Good stuff. As of the year 2000, those identifying with Christianity of one form or another amounted to 33% of the world population (still the largest faith on the planet). Collectively receiving $15.2 trillion dollars a year (53% of the world’s [...]
8 Feb
the global village
If the world was a village of 100 people … The village would have 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, 8 Latin Americans, 5 from the USA and Canada, and 1 from the South Pacific 51 would be male, 49 would be female 82 would be non-white; 18 white 67 would be non-Christian; 33 would [...]
3 Feb
single mom … bar graph … sharing food
From Wednesday’s Boston Globe: Single Mothers Need $58K to Make it in Mass. Wow. ————————— This chart measures the U.S. population growth against church membership since 1980. Hmmmmm…… (HT: Fred Peatross) ——————————- About the middle of this past week, I was thinking, “This Pantry Challenge better be over soon because I’m not sure how much [...]
17 Jan
Pantry Challenge 2007
Today begins Pantry Challenge 2007 for the Holts. (go read about it at the link, then come back) We’re doing it for several reasons, many of which are listed on the site of the guy that created it. It will be a discipline in consumption, in self-control. Through it, we hope to identify more with [...]
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