Aren’t we all God’s children?

I was listening to a very “conservative Christian” radio commentator the other day. She was rejoicing in the signs of springtime appearing around us, reflecting on the idea that everything must die in the winter in order for there to be the resurrection of life in the Spring. Did she know that she was expressing [...]

A need for victims

You may have heard somewhere in the news recently about the Connecticut legislature considering a bill that would provide oversight of the financial and administrative affairs of the Catholic Church there, and the outrage that proposal has generated. The action by the lawmakers is being called unconstitutional, a grave violation of religious liberty, and an [...]

Finding Our Voices

…in Leesburg, Thursday March 19. The Rev. Graylan Hagler, Minister of Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in D.C., is one of the voices of dissent featured in this documentary film. Members of St. James have been present since the spring of 2003 for monthly vigils to end the war in Iraq. Join us this [...]

Brokenhearted about God

I began the Bible as a hopeful, but indifferent, agnostic. I wished for a God, but I didn’t really care. I leave the Bible as a hopeless and angry agnostic. I’m brokenhearted about God.
These are the words of author David Plotz, discussing his project of blogging the Bible for Slate, Good Book: What I learned [...]

Choices

Today’s Reading is a excerpt from “My Stroke of Insight” by Jill Bolte TAylor, Ph.D  From Page 148.
……….More often than not, I don’t like how agression feels inside my body so I shy away from the hostile confrontation and choose compassion.
For me now, it’s really easy to be kind to others when I remember that [...]

When you pray, move your feet

This Saturday we will be hosting a screening and discussion of The Asphalt Gospel, a film about Crosswalk America’s 2006 journey from Phoenix to Washington DC:
On Easter 2006, six ordinary people left their homes, jobs and families for a journey on foot into the heart of America. Their intention, as Crosswalk America, was to start [...]