This week Father Gregory Boyle and his friends David and Ruben travelled from Los Angeles to Boston to share the story of Homeboy Industries. Their call to fostering kinship with those on the margins by opening yourself up to be reached was just the balm I needed in the tension of the present political climate.
Read MoreI visited Garden Church, a Swedenborgian church San Pedro, California, in pouring rain. While my experience of their worship might not have been quite the norm, I was moved by our meditation on Psalm 46. It is because of communities like theirs that I have hope this Psalm's promise rings true.
Read MoreWhen Eve looked down at her naked breasts and belly and saw for the first time not the beauty of her curves or a powerful body capable of ushering life into this world, but instead the dimples of her thighs and the softness of her middle, I wonder at how crippling the shame that took hold of her mind. Fruit still in hand, juice dripping down her fingers, she had no idea that the dread she felt at the sight of her body—the sudden urge to sew a dress out of fig leaves—was a dread she would pass down to her daughters and granddaughters and generations of women and men to come.
Read MoreWe live in a world so in need of healing, and we serve the only One who can heal. In bestowing the gift of the Holy Spirit, He empowers us to take part. But until we identify injustice, empathize with those it hurts, and work to change the systems which allow it to take place, we fail to accept the call of Christ on our lives
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