For years, I had fought against the stigmas that dehumanize people with mental illness. Now here I was on the inside.
Grace
Some years ago on a trip to the U.K., I walked through the historic Holy Trinity Church on Clapham Common in South London.
In your January 2007 issue p.10 photo caption, your editors shoot a barb at the protesters for their sign misspelling the legal term "habeas corpus." Four pages later, in a sideline to the article
100 years after Dietrich Bonhoeffer's birth, he still has much to teach us.
Thanks for the wonderfully inspiring and challenging piece by Brian McLaren (“A Bridge Far Enough?” September-October 2005). This call to genuine care for those with whom we disagree is solid gospel sense. McLaren wears those boot prints well, even though it surely sometimes hurts.
A most obstinate misconception associated with the gospel of Jesus Christ is that the gospel is welcome in this world.