Spirituality
Recently, I've begun to think how I can reconnect with God by turning all my travels (including my everyday errands) into pilgrimages. In this quest, I am greatly aided by the Rev. Kurt Neilson, author of Urban Iona.
Last Sunday I got a call at 11 a.m. It was Rachel Pater calling from her home town church (denomination to remain unnamed). It took several minutes before she could form a proper sentence through her sobs. Finally in a shaky voice, this came out: "I'm at my parent's church ... they are doing communion ...
Patience may be a virtue, but it’s definitely not my strong suit. I hate to wait. H-A-T-E it.
Seventeen activists and church leaders talk about the disciplines that keep them girded for the struggle.
As the band of runaway Israelite slaves wander in their search for freedom, again and again they grow rebellious. In the greatest of these rebellions, Korach criticizes Moses, claiming "The whole community is holy -- all of them! Why do you, Moses and Aaron, raise yourselves above them?" (Numbers 16: 1-3ff)
I appreciated Rose Marie Berger’s piece on forgiveness (“Just Forgive,” March 2009).
I appreciated Rose Berger’s column (“Tackling the Unspeakable,” February 2009) and her interview with Jim Douglass about John F. Kennedy’s assassination.