For the last year or so, I have watched Emily*. After a short time, a pattern revealed itself:
Her husband beats her up.
Her husband leaves home.
She announces that this time it is over - she is leaving him for good.
He comes back.
They are together again, and she tells me this time he has changed.
I have watched [...]
My friend Danny* called last Monday morning and said he was passing blood. He told me he had thrown up blood yesterday. I told him to catch the bus and I would meet him at the Emergency Room at the hospital.
Thirty minutes later, I show up - no Danny. Undaunted (Danny is always running late), [...]
All my life, I have been warned about the ‘wrong crowd’. We are told the way the world works is that one bad apple will ruin the whole barrel, that the bad kids will influence the good kids, that bad is more influential than good. It even sounds right.
The big thing for me, though, is [...]
You see, we operate from this crazy premise we see in the teachings of Jesus that love, once given, spreads and grows (sorta like yeast, or a mustard seed…) and takes hold and, in small ways and in incremental bits, works to change us, then each other, and then, the world, working [...]
There is no point in getting into an argument about this notion of loving. It is what Christianity is all about — take it or leave it. Christianity is not about ritual and moral living except insofar as these two express the love that causes both of them. We must at least pray for the [...]
