Worship
Earlier this month, I was in Dallas for the official launch of Sojourners' next Justice Revival.
"Dallas needs this."
Those are the two statements Aaron Graham (Sojourners' Justice Revival Coordinator) and I heard over and over again as we visited pastors and other community leaders all over the city, lifting up the vision of a Dallas Justice Revival.
Today is Blog Action Day 2009, an annual event that unites the world's bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day.
"He who sings prays twice." -- Saint Augustine
"What's going on?" -- Marvin Gaye
ABC's Nightline has been running a series on the Ten Commandments in which they explore the issues and dimensions of each commandment in contemporary society.
The gender discussion in the church today is captured succinctly by New Testament scholar Gordon Fee in
To work is to pray.
It's a Latin phrase that the Order of St. Benedict adopted as its motto.
St. Benedict, the founder of the order, recognized the sacred value of hard work, the notion that through the sweat of our brows and the strength of our arms and backs, we can worship the Creator.
"I do the work of justice not out of a disdain for the privileged but out of a love for Life." - Womanist Theologian Dr. Kelly Douglas Brown