Christianity

 

Religion is confusing. Many of us profess to be Christian. Some even declare the United State is a Christian nation. But pressed, we often stammer and stutter about what that really means.

 

O brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother;
Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there;
To worship rightly is to love each other,
Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

Is more about passionate understanding of other people, especially those who speak in other tongues, than in uttering gibberish.

Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
Forgive our foolish ways;
Reclothe us in our rightful mind,
In purer lives Thy service find,
In deeper reverence, praise.

47 years ago, I sat in a small classrom puzzling "Fear and Trembling" (Søren Kierkegaard).

A Circle of Violence

by Rev. Gloria L. Rhudy, Pastor, Woodlawn-Shiloh United Methodist Churches

On the Journey from Religion to Authentic Faith

One man's aproach to the Problem of Evil.

The world, Creation is you will or must, is a mixed bag - everything in it, you, me, nature and culture, religion and science, Punk and Opera, the Bible and Oscar Wilde, everything. Amongst the darkness and scattered light, if you look carefully enough, you will have occasional glimpses of coherency. Of such is a book by Cheryl Moss Tyler "And you invited me in

I have been asked to pray for the people of Iran. I have read the prayers of many and while I struggle to remove the beam from my own eye, I also struggle to remove the mote from others.

The Resurrection of Love.

A church of, by, and for the homeless in Northern Virginia.