It is a terrible misunderstanding of the Gospel to think that it offers us salvation while relieving us of responsibility for the life of the world, for the sin and sorrow and pain with which our human life and that of our fellow men and women are so deeply interwoven. --Newbigin.

My beloved father taught me to love maps. I have beloved maps in piles in my car, to all the places I used to drive, from Massachusetts to South Carolina. I virtually never use GPS. My neurologist said that maps were good for my almost 88-year-old brain.

Caught in the middle of a political battle, @BlackRock reaffirmed its focus is helping millions of Americans save for retirement. They warned that injecting politics from either side risks undermining financial performance.

Saddest sight I've seen lately:.Father (30-ish), son (maybe 8-9) sitting across from each other in a booth at a diner where I sometimes have breakfast. Not looking at each other, not talking to each other. Just phones. For half an hour.

Call to duty, preacher-theologians! .How do we "get to heaven"? .

This story is essential for deep understanding of the suffering and the dignity of the poor, the powerless, the overlooked, the despised. whom Jesus loves. The journalist and photographer bore witness.

When the Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, I was 9. Our family was in Charlottesville at my grandparents' house. Joyful crowds celebrated V-J Day. I distinctly remember my mother saying, "We shouldn't have done that.".

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Another memory of my mother during WW2:.She woke me up in the middle of the night so I would always be able to say I'd heard the radio in the morning when D-Day was happening.

Andy Buchanan has a unique preaching style. I wouldn't try to imitate it, I just appreciate it! He's devoting six sermons to the book of Daniel. a rare happening in the Episcopal church.

If I were preaching this week. I would have two scriptures. Here is one (is this hubris, or stupidity, or just plain Sin?).The other Scripture would be almost any portion of the Word of God.

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I should not be allowed access to media! I just sent a supposedly private message to Wes Hill compimenting him on his Easter book and somehow it went out to the world, complete with a wacko AI commentary (?) that proves I would never recommend AI to anyone for anything 🤪😝.

"Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all." Thomas Hobbes.Re-read Genesis 15:1-18.One of my best sermons in my OT book, "The Bloody Passageway," is on-target.

Best advice ever: .If you are caught in the act,.Tell it early. Tell it all. Tell it yourself. Here's looking at you, Pres. Trump.

Here is a link to the article by Mark Edmundson (thanks, Phil Ziegler). You do not have to have anything to do with UVA to see how deeply this probes into the necessity of standing for something and not cravenly melting away from fear.

Mark Edmundson is one of my academic heroes and he has done it again in the 7/13 WSJ. I adored "Paradise Lost" in my youth and it's still in my memory bank. This prof has made it live on a campus (Grounds--if you know, you know) where politics makes it difficult to teach.

I am not planning on dying any time soon, but if I should die tomorrow, I will die so grateful that I have done what the Lord gave me to do. And thankful also that some much younger persons have responded to my flawed attempts to bear witness to the living presence of our Lord.

I think I will read this next. For obvious reasons.

Of all the virtues with which man can endow himself surely none other is so odious as that justice which can teach itself to look down upon mercy almost as a vice! --Anthony Trollope, "Orley Farm".

Can't wait for the latest Britbox. the six (in)famous Mitford sisters!.My fave is Jessica ("Decca") who exposed the funeral industry in "The American Way of Death." She lived at Virginia Seminary for a time with Virginia and Clifford Durr (q.v.) who bailed Rosa Parks out of jail.

"Civilization every day commits crimes for which any individual would be imprisoned for life. You are never free of the world. to share life is to share guilt.".--WW2 Pacific war novel by Richard Flanagan.