Texts:  3 John 1:1-6 Within these sacred grounds, revenge and anger end: A way to peace is found, and injury can mend. With friendship's kindness as our guide, the soul's made glad and satisfied. With friendship's kindness as our guide, the soul's made glad and satisfied. Amidst this band of brothers, a loving wisdom lives:…

Texts: Psalm 42, Luke 24:36-48 In 1910 in Edinburgh Scotland, hundreds of Christian leaders from around the world met to discuss the meaning and the nature of Christian mission.  A reporter from the Christian Century, was on the scene.  He described the goal of the conference as  bringing theconcerns of the local church into a…

Texts: Habakkuk 2:1-3a A preferential option for the poor also implies a mode of analysis. In examining TB in Haiti, our analysis must be historically deep: not merely deep enough to remind us of the Peligre dam project that deprived the majority of my patients of their land, but deep enough to make us remember…

Texts:  Matthew 2:1-12 An excerpt from a letter to Greg Mortenson in Stones into Schools, by LTC Chris Kolenda, U.S. Army -- I am convinced that the long-term solution to terrorism in general and Afghanistan specifically is education. The conflict here will not be won with bombs but with books and ideas that excite the imagination…

Readings Joel 2:23-29 O children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in the Lord your God; for he has given the early rain for your vindication, he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the later rain, as before. The threshing floors shall be full of grain, the vats shall overflow with…