Sublime

Ulrich Zwingli,

God, I pray first of all for the brothers and sisters in this jail, that you might strengthen them. I pray for the people who come to the Downtown Chapel to get something to eat and for the staff that provides for them; I pray for all the poor; I pray in thanksgiving for all the people who help me here and for Father Gary, who comes to see me. Plea

they are restored to full human flourishing: He wants them to serve as priest-kings who enjoy proper relationships with God, self, others, and the rest of creation.

A different imagination is needed across North America, one that is no longer focused on ecclesiocentric questions but seeks to discern how we can go on a shared journey of discernment with the Spirit in the neighborhood.

The Giver of life hides revelation in the things we ignore because it is the work of humbling ourselves and asking to have eyes to see and ears to hear that truly transforms our hearts. It’s in the unknowing of how things work—social norms, hierarchy of power, systemic injustice, gender inequality, race supremacy, physical and mental ableism, modes

The bending of the mind by the powers of this world has twisted the gospel of grace into religious bondage and distorted the image of God into an eternal, small-minded bookkeeper. The Christian community resembles a Wall Street exchange of works wherein the elite are honored and the ordinary ignored. Love is stifled, freedom shackled, and self-righ

And I include myself in the criticism. We as the American church need to take more ownership for our collective sin, our obsession with things that will not make an ounce of difference in heaven, and our failure (past and present) to stand up and speak up for the poor, for the stranger, for the ones who don’t look like us.