I had to write a mission statement for one of my grad school classes, so here it is… It is the desire of human beings to be known. We desire to be known by our God, our families, our friends, and our neighbors. Being known is being loved. The rich often have easy access to [...]
Approximately 12 million people were transported from the coast of West Africa to the America’s over the course of the Atlantic slave trade. On the eve of the Civil War there was just shy of 4 million people enslaved in the United States. By current estimates there are around 27 million slaves in the world [...]
From Globalization, Spirituality, and Justice by Daniel Groody “In large part, the root cause of global injustice is anchored in a fundamental theological and anthropological error that has been referred to today as ‘money-theism.’ Money-theism deals with the idolization of capital, expressed as worship of the gods of the marketplace, and is often practiced through the rituals [...]
One of the traditions I have missed out on the last couple years not being in Seattle is going Christmas caroling with a group from my parents church. As much as I love the songs, part of the motivation for going when I was a kid was the goodies we’d always have afterward. Hot cider, [...]
