Tag Archives: Sacrifice

Goodness Beyond the Good Life

Reading: Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front, by Wendell Berry Last Sunday, I told you about sitting down with the Rabbi from Har Shalom, and how the first people to call her after the Hamas attack were Christian Evangelicals. What … Continue reading

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Essentials In Us

When I was in second grade, my favorite book in the whole world was a little yellow paperback about saints.  In all the same ways that some people talk about the bible as life’s instruction manual, I had the sense that … Continue reading

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Love That Stays

“You can love someone, and fail them.” Louis offers this explanation to his lover, Prior, as he is trying to tell him that he is moving out. “You can love someone, and fail them,” Louis tells him, “and I love … Continue reading

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What Love Means

Part 1: Tough Love When I was an intern in the women’s prison – women would come to talk with me, as their chaplain, and they’d tell me that they knew, Jesus was the solution to their problems. When they’d say … Continue reading

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