By Guest Blogger Sarah Hennessey, FSPA How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? — Matthew 7:4 I have started watching an Australian cop show, a drama called Rush, in which the main focus isContinue reading “Australian crime drama removes plank in my eye”
Tag Archives: culture
5 good ones
Sometimes really good things can get buried underneath other good things. At times, we are called to uncover and re-expose the hidden goodness in the Kingdom of God, so that the blessings can help us be renewed. This blog has been going for about three and half years now and includes over 230 posts. Wow! ThanksContinue reading “5 good ones”
Even if no one gets it
Brothers and sisters: We speak a wisdom to those who are mature, not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who are passing away. Rather, we speak God’s wisdom, mysterious, hidden, which God predetermined before the ages for our glory, and which none of the rulers of this age knew;Continue reading “Even if no one gets it”
Craving a countercultural Christmas
My Christmas Every Day experiment is starting to get awkward. Advent hasn’t even started yet, but Christmas’ crazed and over-weight relative Consumerism is already in town, on the news, and wasting your gasoline and money as he drives all around town shopping. Meanwhile, I’m crowding with others in the cozy chapel, savoring peace and quiet and adoring God’sContinue reading “Craving a countercultural Christmas”
consciousness, change and Joseph Kony
A lot of interesting things are happening in the movements for change in our society. Videos are going viral, the Occupy movement continues, we’ve experienced an Arab Spring, and our nation is divided so much about issues (like wealth, poverty, war, abortion, contraception and sexuality) that I’m beginning to wonder if the two-party political systemContinue reading “consciousness, change and Joseph Kony”
counter-culturally powerful
Yesterday I asked a section of my students to raise their hands if they thought power is something God gives us. Only half of the students raised their hands. When I asked the other half what they thought they spoke about how power is something people earn because of their success. “If we are allContinue reading “counter-culturally powerful”
passing things around in the USA
Brace yourself. This video may make you laugh or cringe. This sampling got me thinking about the general values of our country. I remembered that a couple years ago there was some fascinating debate about whether the USA is really a Christian nation. In the current climate of political unrest, I believe it is aContinue reading “passing things around in the USA”
churches get out of the way, go to The Way
Christians, I think we have a lot of growing to do! It’s embarrassing to admit that I can totally relate to the awkwardness featured in that video. For a period of my life, before I settled into Catholicism, I was a seeker. I visited a lot of brands of Christianity and tried to find aContinue reading “churches get out of the way, go to The Way”