What value defines Christians? In a sermon covering Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a seminarian martyredduring the Civil Rights era , an argument that our central teaching is all about compassion.
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No Longer Strangers
Why does faith matter? Why does contemplation matter? Our faith is how we stay sane in a world with insane priorities. Our faith is about seeking the peace that St. Paul talks about. Our faith is about learning to long for a deeper wholeness when all our world offers is more painful division.
Jesus and the Sabbath
Jesus’ teaching, “the sabbath was created for humans; humans weren’t created for the sabbath” goes to the heart of Jesus’ perspective on faith. What he teaches in the first part of the story, he practices in the second. Jesus heals a man with a withered hand, on the sabbath and argues that our faith should always be life-giving. Faith should always be life-giving.
Nondual Christianity
To understand the Ascension, you have to know that much of the Christian tradition is about wisdom, rather than knowledge. The wisdom at the heart of Christianity is a teaching about nondualism.
Mike Angell 