When James (whoever he was) wrote the letter, it is likely that he had very little confidence that his words would ever make it to any of the communities of the faithful to which it was addressed…
Nevertheless, he wrote it.
In this generation that its awake to the many ways that people can love, and the many ways that people can experience gender…
Are we going to interpret the gospel in a way that we proposes that we hate our own bodies? I say no!
Somewhere, in the middle of that perilous gauntlet, I spoke up from the backseat, where I was squashed up against the cliff-side window: “What does Hati Hati! mean?”
This “true” is simple.
This “true” is before us at all times.
This “true” is as pervasive as the gravity that holds us to the earth.
Go out… but don’t take anything with you…
Nothing at all.
This is what Jesus tells his disciples to do.
My life had been governed, until that moment, by the assumption that my own personal well being was the single most important concern of my existence. Now, suddenly, surprisingly — but completely — that assumption crumbled to dust…
My idea of ministry has no interest in threats of eternal fire.
But it is interested in challenging you to resist injustice.
