Roundtable Worship Guide is Online!
I am pleased to announce that the book Roundtable Worship: A Reflective Guide is now available online at the website for JustPeace. Just go to the site (http://justpeaceumc.org/) and you’ll see it, along with a link to the full resource. It can be read on the site or downloaded free as a .pdf file for [...]
Invictus — The Sequel
As the US and Algerian soccer teams were resting up for their match in the World Cup, Sylvia and I watched the film Invictus, Clint Eastwood’s deft visualization of Nelson Mandela’s dance of reconciliation with Francois Pienaar, captain of the South African Rugby team, in 1995. The recently elected Mandela saw the importance of embracing [...]
On the Trail
Walking in his moccasins I felt a pain shoot up my leg. I tried to shift terrain, find smoother ground, a grassy place rolled flat. I shook my foot and curled my toes. The pain insistent made me stop, sit down, remove the pebble buried in the hide, the stone that made him cry in [...]
Darwin and Restorative Justice
The evolutionary perspective that Charles Darwin generated over a century ago continues to refocus, reframe, and reconstruct our views of everything from God to humanity, history to biology. Perusing the latest controversies, I began to think about the impact of evolutionary thought on restorative justice. From an evolutionary perspective theologians can no longer easily speak [...]
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