Learning from the ahead-of-their-time progressivesness of the earliest church feasts and 12 practical ways to live out and enjoy the resurrection of Jesus
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"We're under attack!"... "No, we're under attack!" That seems to be the story of every divide in our world, whether societal or personal. In the accounts of Jesus remembered on Palm Sunday and Good Friday, there is an inspiring example of how we might engage divides more productively.
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In his day, Jesus took aim at the Pharisees, who inflamed contentious attitudes through their removed analysis of society and their focus on holding the right opinions. The draw toward such attitudes is in us all, but Jesus modeled engagement with people that can break the power of those attitudes in us.
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Contentiousness boils below the surface seemingly everywhere in society, often leaving us feeling apathetic, exasperated, or cynical. An obscure moment in the history of Ancient Israel can teach us about God's prescription for us when we feel these ways.
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A seven-minute meditation and guided prayer experience, as we mark the beginning of the 40-day period of Lent leading up to Easter Sunday.
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In its more innocuous forms, tribalism is a Cubs fan's dislike of White Sox fans. But tribalism is the story of us all in much more high stakes ways. How can we fight the tendency to see the world as "us vs. them" (and help curb its horrible consequences)?
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The surprising way an episode of Parks & Rec speaks to the story of Cain and Abel, and might help us all become less judgmental, more connecting people.
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Maybe all of life's choices can be helpfully understood in terms of the ancient image from the book of Genesis: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil vs. the tree of life.
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Whether it's the consumerism bred into Americans like us today, or the hunger for power and status bred into the Greco-Roman culture of St. Paul's day, all people, no matter the era, seem to default to asking "what's in this for me?" rather than "what's in this for us?"
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We are fully alive when we're honest about our truth, not living in denial. King David's psalms model for us a prayer life of unflinching honesty. If we're thinking it (even if it's untidy or irreverent), God knows, so we might as well express it in prayer...
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