“God Becomes a Helpless Child”
Dear Friends, In the church in which I grew up, I recall being fascinated by the church crèche. We didn’t have any kind of nativity scene at my home, so this immense crèche, dragged out from storage each year, was…
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Advent: Building the Dream in the Wilderness
Dear Friends, God has put a dream in our hearts. It is a dream of a world where hatred, prejudice, conflict, and violence will have cease. A world where the “enough for all” is actually shared among all. A place…
Advent: Abandoning Illusion for the Real
Dear Friends, Advent is about expanding our vision. It is about aligning ourselves with God’s dream for the creation. Amidst the rush of our lives, it is all too easy to imagine there is no alternative to the daily struggle.…