“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can.” Thomas Merton, Letter …
Month: November 2017
Broken Body
“When Jesus took the bread and said, ‘This is my body which is broken for you’ (1 Corinthians 11:24), it’s hard to believe that even in his wildest dreams he foresaw the tragic and ludicrous brokenness of the Church as his body. There’s no reason why everyone should be Christian in the same way and …
Even when our differences matter, they don’t ultimately matter.
Each morning I receive an email from a website dedicated to the writings of my dad’s favorite preacher-writer, Frederick Buechner. Yesterday’s passage was entitled “Friends,” and the essence of its message was that, for each of us, there are some friends — only a few — who we count as friends “for no particular reason,” …
Love Stays
“To separate ourselves from a body of living Christians, with whom we were before united, is a grievous breach of the law of love. It is the nature of love to unite us together; and the greater the love, the stricter the union. And while this continues in its strength, nothing can divide those whom …
Wesley: Consensus, not Dissensus
Theologians of other traditions have long concurred that what set John Wesley apart — and, I submit, what we Methodists ought gratefully to embrace, reinforcing our unity — is that he “sought Christianity more in practical principles and sanctified affections than in orthodox formulas, and laid greater stress on the ecumenical consensus which unites than …